Category: Botany & Taxonomy related

Fwd: Herbarium : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1)- Herbarium_ pdf.pdf- 3 MB   Just published article on herbaria attached for your perusal. Thanks, … Very interesting to a layman like me. Forwarding to efloraofindia for their reading pl.

Jasminum_Nashik_uncommman groth_AJK160715 : 7 posts by 3 authors. 2 images. This jasmine vine (local name Kunda) is growing in a private garden in Nashik.  What can be the reason behind the uncommon growth of its stem? may be insects? galls? what about the original stem? did you take pictures of it? This condition in Jasminum […]

PLEASE H E L P PLEASE : 8 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1) To make this plate I copied two photographs recorded by … Please help me to understand different floral structure of an asclepiad flower. Please check all label and let me know which are wrongly marked. Please find the attached image which […]

primitive and advanced families : 2 posts by 2 authors. I need a bit of help from all experts in the field. i need a list of families arranged in order of their primitiveness of advancement over the other families. In other words, i need to know which families are advanced and which families are […]

Herbarium : 19 posts by 7 authors. This is an unusual request to all of you. I was thinking of making a herbarium of local plants this summer with my son and daughter. What do I need to make a professional herbarium–something which can be useful in gaining further insights later? Since I have no […]

Fwd: Herbarium : 1 post by 1 author. You collect good looking plants. small means (less than 1 foot) collect with root , rinse it in water to remove the soil particle. Keep it in a old magazine or folded news paper. Keep it under your bed or put some one -2 kg weight wood […]

Acanthaceae Fortnight:: Ruellia Sp ?? for ID-NSJ-MAR-29 : ……………………. when was the fbi vol published? … old i know much movement in plants and animals since then no reason why we cant see any of those plants in peninsular India or the Himalayas and gangetic plains , as far as I can see what with […]

A basic question: I have a question….. Is it necessary to write synonym of any plant specimen in italics too like we write Accepted name in italics Yes sir Pl. see https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/general-eposts/general-efi-posts/botanical-terms-etc/linnaeus Thanks  for the very useful link but if the reason that genus and species names are italicized is that they do not belong […]

    IBIS-Flora: A working Flora of India with a baseline database : 6 posts by 3 authors. THE IBIS FLORA PORTAL A hundred years after the publication of “The Flora of British India”, the time has arrived to compile and update the data on floral biodiversity of India with the knowledge that we have gleaned […]

Hooghly sk-nov-13 : what does “ex” signify? : 5 posts by 2 authors. I have found the answer in wiki – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author_citation. Please, tell me if “ex” has other meaning. Wikipedia seems to be partly correct as example is partly correct. These examples should help 46.4. A name of a new taxon must be attributed to […]

    A+life’s+mission+-+The+Hindu : 2 posts by 2 authors. Link Thanks for introducing Dr.M.Sabu of Calicut University to Eflora members .As Secretary. of Indian Association of Anigiosperm taxonomy and as Executive Editor of ‘Rheedea’ his contributions to the cause of Botany are remarkable. My good wishes to him.On a related note I would like to […]

Fwd: About M Sharfuddin Khan : 1 post by 1 author. Who is M Sharfuddin Khan? I am finding lot of litrature from him on net like given in the link: http://forest.ap.nic.in/ForestFloraofAndhraPradesh.htm Do you have his e-mail Id or tel. no.? Mr. M.S. Khan was Silviculturist in erstwhile Hyderabad Govt. (during the regime of Nizams). […]

    Report on botanical nomenclature—Melbourne 2011. XVIII International Botanical Congress, Melbourne: Nomenclature Section, 18–22 July 2011 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1). Please find the attachment- 2 MB        

App for identification : Please visit… http://leafsnap.com Can we develop such kind of App for identifying plants found in Indian subcontinent? Thanks … I wish they have android version also.

    How does a plant called an exotic, a ‘naturalised’ and a native? : 7 posts by 5 authors. I am very interested in understanding how one decides and traces the nativity of a plant. How is it that a plant gets its identity as a exotic, a ‘naturalised’ and a native? Is such […]

    Fwd: Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds: Migrant birds may be virtual dispersal highways for plants : 1 post by 1 author. New information about the role of migratory birds influencing plant distribution comes from evidence of them carrying microscopic bits of plants (bryophyte diaspores). Read on Tiny plants ride […]

Hemlata Pradhan, botanist painter : 3 posts by 2 authors. Other recipients: http://www.indianbotanists.com/2014/06/botanical-illustration-painting-plant.html?spref=fb cheers,Kiran Srivastavamumbai http://www.indianbotanists.com/2014/06/botanical-illustration-painting-plant.html?spref=fb Thanks Kiran Ji, I was lucky enough to meet … at her art school in Kalimpong.. a great display of art by her students was a real treat for me.. as illustrators are be becoming rare, she is doing […]

    Fwd: A new website for identification of plants : 1 post by 1 author. Just today Mr. A. M. Gokhale, Retired IAS, settlet in Pune, winner of Padmashree and a plant lover called me over telephone and informed that he has opened a website called www.signaturesofplants.com I tried it today. He has given […]

    An Orientation Course on Plant Taxonomy : 2 posts by 2 authors. In an effort to empower hobbyist youngsters with concepts in plant taxonomy and systematics, an “Orientation Course on Plant Taxonomy” has been planned at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. The course among other topics, will cover: 1. Principles of plant […]

Fwd: Recently published Articles Part-I :  2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (4 + 2).   Please find my recently published research articles detail given below: New Species 1. Macrosolen andamanensis published in Indian Journal of Forestry 2013, 36(1):55-59. 2. Carissa andamanensis published in Indian Journal of Forestry 2012  New Record for India: 1. Macrosolen melintangensis […]