• Strobilanthes pulneyensis

    Strobilanthes pulneyensis C. B. Cl., Fl. Brit. India 4: 438 1884. (syn: Nilgirianthus circarensis (Gamble) Bremek.; Strobilanthes circarensis Gamble; Strobilanthes punctatus Bedd.; Xenacanthus pulneyensis (C.B.Clarke) Bremek.); India (E- & S-India) as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Palani Coneflower • Malayalam: Chonayamkallu Kurinji Profusely branched shrubs; branchlets densely hirtus. Leaves…

  • Honey bee on Cosmos species

      Fwd: SYMBIOSIS 1165 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Attaching a collage of honey bee visiting flowers of Cosmos.  

  • Strobilanthes gracilis

    Strobilanthes gracilis Bedd. (syn: Mackenziea gracilis (Bedd.) Bremek.; Strobilanthes beddomei T. Anders.); . India (SW-Ghats (Kerala,Tamil Nadu)) as per Catalogue of Life;  . Common name: Slender Coneflower • Malayalam: Thokakurinji . Thick shrubs; stems obtusely quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves 12-15 x 4-6 cm, elliptic, decurrent and auricled at base, acuminate at…

  • Cleyera japonica var. wallichiana

    Cleyera japonica var. wallichiana (DC.) Sealy, Bot. Mag. 163: t. 9606 1940. (syn: Adinandra japonica var. wallichiana (DC.) T. L. Ming; Cleyera grandiflora Hook. fil. & Thomson ex Dyer (ambiguous synonym); Cleyera grandiflora Wallich (ambiguous synonym); Cleyera japonica var. grandiflora (Wallich ex Choisy) Kobuski; Cleyera lushia (Ham. ex D. Don)…

  • Cleyera

    Cleyera japonica var. wallichiana (DC.) Sealy (China (W-Sichuan, W-Yunnan), SE-Tibet, India (Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya), Nepal, Myanmar [Burma] as per Catalogue of Life)

  • Strobilanthes lurida

    Strobilanthes lurida Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4: t. 1515 1850. (syn: Didyplosandra lurida (Wight) Bremek.); India (SW-Ghats (Kerala, Tamil Nadu)) as per Catalogue of life; Common name: Lurid Coneflower • Malayalam: മുട്ടകന്നികുരിന്ജീ Muttakannikurinji Large straggling branched shrubs; stem thick, virgate, swollen at nodes, glabrous. Leaves opposite, ca 20 x10 cm,…

  • Sida alii (Pakistan)

    Sida alii Abedin, Pakistan J. Bot. 11: 46 1979.; Pakistan as per Catalogue of Life;   Id please..which species of Sida? scrub forest Punajb Pakistan..Thankyou : 9 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (4)- around 700 kb each.  Please check Sida ovata Thank you Sir. however i am still confused. Did…

  • Pakistan- near Sharqpur area, Punjab

      Id please..from punjab Pakistan.. : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) this picture was captured from riparian forest near Sharqpur area, Punjab, Pakistan in August 2017. Please identify the species. Just a wild guess … could this be some Rubiaceae ground cover?

  • Strobilanthes urceolaris

    Strobilanthes urceolaris Gamble, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 74 1923. (syn: Nilgirianthus urceolaris (Gamble) Bremek.); India (SW-Ghats (Kerala, Tamil Nadu)) as per Catalogue of Life; Common name: Pitcher Coneflower • Malayalam: പന്ജിക്കുരിന്ജീ Panjikkurinji Shrubs; branchlets densely hirtus. Leaves to 9 x 5 cm, ovate, acute at either ends, densely scabrous, crenate,…

  • Pycnarrhena pleniflora

    Pycnarrhena pleniflora Hook. fil. & Thoms., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III, 20: 12 1867. (syn: Cocculus planiflorus Wall.); . India (West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya), Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar [Burma] (Sagaing, Taninthayi), ?China as per Catalogue of Life; . Pycnarrhena pleniflora (Menispermaceae) : 2 posts by 2 authors….

  • Pycnarrhena

    Pycnarrhena pleniflora Hook. fil. & Thoms.      

  • Albizia sherriffii

    Albizia sherriffii Baker f. (syn: Albizia vernayana Merr.); . Bhutan (N); China (N):  Xizang Zizhiqu; Yunnan; India (N):  Arunachal Pradesh; Assam; Sikkim; Myanmar (N) as per ILDIS; . Similar to A. julibrissin but tree 10-25m; leaf rachises 10-30cm with an oval gland 3mm near base and another smaller one near…

  • Mallotus paniculatus

    Mallotus paniculatus (Lam.) Müll.Arg., Linnaea 34: 189 1865. (syn: Croton appendiculatus Elmer; Croton paniculatus Lam.; Echinus trisulcus Lour.; Lasipana tricuspis Raf. [Illegitimate]; Mallotus albus (Roxb. ex Jack) Müll.Arg.; Mallotus chinensis Lour.; Mallotus chinensis Müll. Arg.; Mallotus cochinchinensis Lour.; Mallotus paniculatus var. paniculatus ; Mappa cochinchinensis Spreng. [Illegitimate]; Ricinus chinensis Thunb.; Rottlera alba Roxb….

  • Alchornea

    Alchornea tiliifolia (Benth.) Müll.Arg.   The page on Alchornea Sw. (Euphorbiaceae) is missing : 2 posts by 2 authors. The genus Alchornea Sw. is represented in India by three species:  1. Alchornea mollis Müll.Arg.  2. Alchornea rugosa (Lour.) Müll.Arg. 3. Alchornea tiliifolia (Benth.) Müll.Arg. There is no mention of the genus…

  • PST needs more editorial and reviewer board members

    Fwd: PST needs more editorial and reviewer board members : 4 posts by 4 authors. Plant Science Today needs more editorial and reviewer board members. If interested, submit your application at https://goo.gl/forms/DHytS3QLSbJqHoLf2 Kindly forward the mail to your colleagues as well.  not familiar with this journal can you or ……

  • Psychopsis ‘Mariposa’

    Psychopsis ‘Mariposa’;   Psychopsis mariposa : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2) Location: Hong Kong Park   Date: 13 August 2018 Elevation: 200 ft. Habit : Cultivated References: http://orchidnature.com/orchid-identification-psychopsis-mariposa/ https://orchids-shop.com/psychopsis-mariposa-three-lip.html http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchidtalk/phalaenopsis-oncidium-intergenerics-bloom/36170-psychopsis-mariposa.html https://www.orchidweb.com/orchids/oncidiinae/hybrids/psychopsis-mariposa-peloric-papilio-x-kalihi

  • Memecylon umbellatum ?

    Memecylon umbellatum ?; . Memecylon umbellatum—for sharing : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1) picture taken at Aambyvalley Rd., Off Lonavala, Pune in Jan.17. Pls provide a leafy twig image to identify Only photo I have Looks matching but leaf images would be helpful ! Looks matching !

  • Oncidium hybrids- Hong Kong

      SK1439 14 Sep 2018 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3) – around 600 kb each. Location: Hong Kong Park   Date: 13 August 2018 Elevation: 200 ft. Habit : Cultivated Oncidium cultivar ?? Another Oncidium hybrid. yes also a very popular flower for silk flower industry  What is a silk…