• 106. Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th Nov.’19

    Efloraofindia website updated upto 30th Nov.’19- more than 13,000 species : 7 posts by 6 authors. It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 3,37,500 messages…

  • Plantago major ?

    Plantago major ?; . Plantago sp id requested : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) – 6 mb. Plantago sp id requested Thamri Kund Trail, Munsiyari, Uttarakhand August 2019 Could this be: Plantago major Plantago depressa (syn P. tibetica) ??? you will need to go to classification of LARGE LEAF…

  • Heritiera macrophylla

    Heritiera macrophylla Wall. ex Voigt, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 61 1873. (syn: Amygdalus macrophylla (Wall. ex Voigt) Kuntze); . India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya), Indochina, Myanmar [Burma], N-Thailand, Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: Large Leaf Looking Glass Mangrove • Bengali: সুংদৰী…

  • Hoya species- Koh Chang, Thailand

      SK 2310 11 December 2019 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Location: Koh Chang, Thailand Date: 10 December 2019 Elevation: MSL Habitat : Wild hoya sp. Yes …! I guessed Hoya! you changed your picture format. not very good for my eyes. can we go back to your original…

  • Tribulus terrestris var. bicornutus

    Tribulus terrestris var. bicornutus (Fisch. & C. A. Mey.) Hadidi (syn: Tribulus bicornutus Fisch. & C. A. Mey. (ambiguous synonym); Tribulus hispidus C. Presl; Tribulus lanuginosus L. (ambiguous synonym); Tribulus lanuginosus var. microcarpus Chiov.; Tribulus lanuginosus var. orientalis (Kerner) M. P. Nayar & G. S. Giri (ambiguous synonym)); . Talysh,…

  • Botanical Latin Website

    Botanical Latin Website reaches 9000 entries : The website Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin by P. M. Eckel has recently exceeded 9000 entries. A large percentage of the entries are mini-essays on use of Latin terms and English equivalents. It is a work in progress, but should be useful to…

  • Billbergia macrocalyx

    Billbergia macrocalyx Hook., Bot. Mag. 85: t. 5114 1859. (Syn: Billbergia quintusiana Wittm.); Brazil Northeast; Brazil Southeast as per Catalogue of Life;   Bromeliad for ID : Mumbai : 281111 : AK-2: An Ornamental potted plant, probably a Bromeliad, taken at Jijamata Udyan on the 18th of Nov,11. Had posted…

  • Grevillea hilliana (Cultivated)

    Grevillea hilliana F.Muell., Trans. & Proc. Philos. Inst. Victoria 2: 72 1858. (syn: Hakea hilliana (F. Muell.) Christenh. & Byng); . Australia (Cooktown, Queensland, S to the Brunswick R. in N-New South Wales) as per Catalogue of Life; . Common name: White Silky Oak, Grey Oak, Hill’s Silky Oak ….

  • Crotalaria species- Mizoram

      Crotalaria alata ??180510-PKA1 – efloraofindia | Google Groups : 3 images. Thanks … for posting, Crotalaria alata from Manipur. I too had similar photos of Crotalaria sp. from Mizoram. Do have a look.  I too think this is Crotalaria alata previously posted by … from Manipur. To me looks different from other images…

  • Trichosanthes cordata

    Trichosanthes cordata Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. 1832 3: 703–704 1832. (syn: Anguina cordata (Roxb.) Kuntze; Involucraria cordata (Roxb.) M. Roem.; Trichosanthes microsiphon Kurz; Trichosanthes tuberosa Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. (ambiguous synonym)); . SE-Tibet, India, peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar [Burma] (Bago), Darjeeling, Nepal, Bangladesh as per Catalogue of Life; . Climber;…

  • Pilea symmeria

    Pilea symmeria Wedd. ; S-Tibet, Bhutan, N-India, Nepal, Sikkim as per Catalogue of Life;   SK1224 22 JUNE 2018 : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (8)-around 600 kb each.  Location: Jaubari, Sandakphu, India Date: 13 May 2018 Altitude: 10000 ft. Habit : Wild Which Urticaceae is this ? Pilea you recently…

  • Dioscorea pentaphylla ?

    For ID22102019RK2-please help in identification : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (1) Please help in identification of this. Its a local root consumed in Jharkhand. Local name-Churke Date-15th August, 2018 Place-Village chewo, Godda, Jharkhand Dioscorea pentaphylla L. ? Dioscorea wd. be my guess too.  one of the rangaloo but…

  • Taxus species ?- Shillong, Meghalaya

        Gymnosperm fortnight: Taxus baccata : Attachments (1).  4 posts by 4 authors. Here is photo of Taxus baccata from Experimental Garden of BSI, Shillong I think the following should be correct as per another thread: “And correct synonymy is Taxus baccata subsp. wallichiana (Zucc.) Pilger; Taxus baccata auct. (non L.).”…

  • Rubus calycinoides

    Rubus calycinoides Kuntze, Meth. Sp. Rubus 67, 78 & 83 (1879). (syn: Rubus bhotanensis Kuntze; Rubus darschilingensis Kuntze; Rubus diffisus Focke; Rubus fallax Kuntze; Rubus himalaicus Kuntze; Rubus moluccanus var. calycinoides (Kuntze) Kuntze; Rubus subherbaceus Kuntze); . Nepal, N-India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Darjeeling as per Catalogue of Life; . As per efi…

  • Reservoir of Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand

    Id of Trees – ID26112019SH3 : 15 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (3) Trees for id pl. Here I am posting a very blurred picture taken from a moving vehicle.I was just curious about these Red-maroonish trees on the mountains.Throughout our journey I saw the mountain ranges filled with these trees.Seemed to be…

  • Lime Blue butterfly on Lindernia species

      SYMBIOSIS 1404 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Attaching a collage of Lime Blue butterfly visiting flowers of Asystasia sp ( ? ). Not Asystasia as per comparative images herein. May be some Lindernia (as per comparative images herein) species.

  • Allmania nodiflora var. procumbens

    Allmania nodiflora var. procumbens Hook. fil., Fl. Malay Penins. 3: 4 1924.; India (S-India) as per Catalogue of Life; Allmania nodiflora var. procumbens Allmania nodiflora var. nodiflora Allmania nodiflora var. roxburghii   Allmania nodiflora var. aspera   Allmania nodiflora var. dichotoma  4 varieties of Allmania nodiflora : 1 correct image as…

  • Allmania nodiflora var. dichotoma

    Allmania nodiflora var. dichotoma (Heyne) Hook. fil., Fl. Brit. India 4: 717 1885. (syn: Allmania dichotoma (Heyne) Wight; Celosia dichotoma Heyne; Chamissoa dichotoma (Heyne) Moq.); India (peninsular India) as per Catalogue of Life; Allmania nodiflora var. procumbens Allmania nodiflora var. nodiflora Allmania nodiflora var. roxburghii   Allmania nodiflora var. aspera  …

  • Dioscorea species- Iruppu Falls, Coorg

    Inflorescence FOR ID :: Iruppu Falls, Coorg :: 12 NOV 19 : 6 posts by 3 authors. 2 images. Iruppu Falls  Coorg Date: November 12, 2019 … Altitude range: about 850 – 1,000 m (2,800 – 3,300 ft) asl ¿ Dioscorea sp. ?   Dear friends, I am assuming the…

  • Callicarpa vestita

    Callicarpa vestita Wall. ex C.B.Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 4: 567 1885. (syn: Callicarpa hookeri C.B.Clarke; Callicarpa lanata Gamble); C. & E. Himalaya to Bangladesh as per WCSP;  Assam; Bangladesh; East Himalaya; Nepal as per Catalogue of Life;   Callicarpa arborea Roxb. (accepted name) : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments…