• Amanita vaginata ?

    Amanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam., 1783 ?;   SK1885 03 May 201 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)- around 650 kb each.  Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 1 Sep 2018 Elevation: 2100 m. Habit : Wild  Pl. check comparative images at  /species–fungi/a—l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/agaricales  Xerula species by any chance as per another thread ? No…

  • Changes in Group settings (6.5.19)

    Changes in Group settings done recently : 5 posts by 2 authors. Google has done changes in Group settings recently. I have crossed checked and it is as per our original settings only. However, they are now allowing attachments upto size of 25 Mb from 8 Mb earlier. If anybody faces…

  • Maharashtra- Ornamental potted plant- Dattaji Salvi Udyan, Thane

      Ornamental Plant for ID : Dattaji Salvi Udyan, Thane : 18APR19 : AK-11 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) A small, potted ornamental plant seen at the garden. garden plant? there is any chance of its should be large shrub or tree? Frankly, I have no idea….

  • Russula species- Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur, Nepal

    SK1878 30 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6)- around 800 kb each.  Location: Suryabinayak, Bhaktapur Date: 28 April 2019 Elevation: 1419 m. Habit : Wild Any idea about the family or Order ? Genus Russula under Russulaceae, Russulales, Basidiomycota. There are large number of…

  • Elaeagnus species- Thane, Maharashtra

    Shrub for ID : Thane : 16APR19 : AK-6 : 21 posts by 6 authors. Plant seen at Dattaji Salvi Udyan in Thane last year. Elaeagnus Species suggested by the person looking after the garden. yes, could very well be  May be, … It can be some exotic ornamental species. Elaeagnus…

  • Agaricus species- Wayanad, Karnataka

         Mushrooms growing on elephant dropping. : Attachments (4). 5 posts by 4 authors. ID of the mushroom please. All the four pictures are taken of onesingle mushroom growing on elephant dropping. Remnants of the dropping on the root. Diameter of mushroom cap 3″ roughly. The gills structure and…

  • Russula species?- Phedi, Nagarkot, Nepal

      SK1872 27 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)- 1 Mb each.  Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 9 August 2015 Elevation: 1600 m. Habit : Wild  Russula species by any chance ? Could be …!

  • Miliusa dioeca

    Miliusa dioeca (Roxb.) Chaowasku & Kessler, comb. nov. ≡ Uvaria dioeca Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. 1832, 2: 659. 1832 ≡ Phaeanthus dioecus (Roxb.) Kurz in Flora 53: 274. 1870 [“dioicus”] ≡ Hyalostemma roxburghianum Wall., Numer. List: No. 6434. 1832, nom. illeg. superfl. ≡ Miliusa roxburghiana Hook. f. & Thomson, Fl….

  • Gagea bulbifera

    Gagea bulbifera (Pall.) Salisb., Ann. Bot. (König & Sims) 2: 557 1806. (syn: Gagea bulbifera var. armena Miscz.; Gagea bulbifera var. chersonica Lindemann; Gagea bulbifera f. ebulbillifera Grossh.; Gagea bulbifera var. major Besser ex Schult. & Schult.f.; Gagea bulbifera var. nuda Regel; Gagea polyphylla Steven; Hornungia bulbifera (Pall.) Rouy; Ornithogalum…

  • Collybia species ?- Telkot, Nagarkot, Nepal

      SK1894 06 May 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4) Location: Telkot, Nagarkot Date: 8 September 2016 Elevation: 1500 m. Habit : Wild  May be from Order Agaricales as per representative images herein /species–fungi/a—l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/agaricalesPl. check.  Check for Collybia species or some closely related genus.  I think these…

  • Russula species?- Charikot, Dolkha, Nepal

      SK1858 23 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)- around 650 kb each. Location:  Charikot, DolkhaDate: 23 July 2014Elevation: 1800 m. Habit : Wild Stipe and gills not clear. Agree. From faint gills which I can see, can it be some Russula‎ species as per representative…

  • Ganoderma species ?- Kalinchok, Dolkha, Nepal

      SK1846 18 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 897 kb. Location:  Kalinchok, DolkhaDate: 26 July 2014Elevation: 2500 m. Habit : Wild Family Fomitopsidaceae as per representative images herein ?  Could not find the exact match. May be some Ganoderma species from Ganodermataceae?

  • Russula‎ species- Kalinchok, Dolkha

      SK1844 3 17 April 2019 – Mycophyta : 8 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Location:  Kalinchok, DolkhaDate: 26 July 2014Elevation: 2500 m. Habit : Wild Location:  Kalinchok, DolkhaDate: 26 July 2014Elevation: 2500 m. Habit : Wild  I guess both are same sp. Attachments (2) Better not to try for id with this image…

  • 103rd TAW at Heritage Garden, Hiranandani Powai

    103rd TAW at Heritage Garden, Hiranandani Powai on 12th May,2019 at 7.30am : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Heritage Garden of Hiranandani Powai  has reputation of having fashion parade of flowers in the months of January/Feburary and in this month  its Fruit Trail..………the Anjani, Arjun,  Ashok, Ratan Gunj,…

  • Gagea reticulata

    Gagea reticulata (Pall.) Schult. & Schult.f., Syst. Veg. 7: 542 1829. (syn: Gagea alexandrina Boiss.; Gagea circinata (L.f.) Loudon; Gagea pseudoreticulata Vved.; Gagea reticularis Salisb. [Illegitimate]; Gagea reticulata f. circinata (L.f.) Pascher; Gagea reticulata var. pascualis Levichev; Gagea reticulata var. tenuifolia Boiss.; Gagea teheranica Gand.; Gagea tenuifolia (Boiss.) Fomin; Hornungia…

  • Amanita species- Phedi, Nagarkot, Nepal

      SK1888 04 May 201 – Mycophyta : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)- around 800 kb each.  Location: Phedi, Nagarkot Date: 1 Sep 2018 Elevation: 1500 m. Habit : Wild  Looks like Amanita sp. Family – Amanitaceae Can’t say more than this without looking at its gills and spores. Amanita…

  • Musa species- Rongpo, South Sikkim

    Re: New Musa from South Sikkim : 9 posts by 4 authors. 6 images. Kindly identify Ensete superbum ?? Pl. check Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman as suggested by … i thought … had given his opinion on one of these bangladesh musa flowers Is it wild or cultivated? Wild and it…

  • World Flora Online (WFO), a successor of The Plant List

    World Flora Online (WFO), a successor of The Plant List : 16 posts by 8 authors. The Plant List (TPL) was a working list of all known plant species produced by the botanical community in response to Target 1 of the 2002-2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). TPL has…