Category: Caralluma

Caralluma stalagmifera C.E.C.Fisch., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 430 1925. ; Common name: Dark Purple Caralluma   Submission of Caralluma stalagmifera : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Plant name: Caralluma stalagmifera C.E.C.Fisch., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1925: 430. 1925.  Ver.names: Dark purple caralluma (Eng.); kundeti kommulu కుందేటికొమ్ములు (Tel.). Family: Apocynaceae Description:  Perennial leafless […]

Caralluma bicolor V.S.Ramach., S.Joseph, H.A.John & Sofiya, Nordic J. Bot. 29: 447 2011. ;         Notes on Justicia notha and Caralluma bicolor and Amomum nilgiricum : 5 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (4) Pls find some more literature on … Caralluma bicolor                References: The Plant […]

Caralluma adscendens var. fimbriata (Wall.) Gravely & Mayur., Ind. Sp. Gen. Car. 13 1931. (Syn: Caralluma fimbriata Wall.);    Images by Sushant More & Gopal Shinde (Id by Subbiah Karuppusamy) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)         carrluma: common name: carrluma Botanical name: Caralluma fimbriata Family : Apocynaceae […]

Caralluma indica (Wight & Arn.) N.E.Br., Gard. Chron. III, 12: 369 1892. (Syn: Boucerosia hutchinia Decne. [Illegitimate]; Boucerosia indica (Wight & Arn.) Plowes; Desmidorchis indica (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze; Hutchinia indica Wight & Arn.);   Images by K M Prabhu Kumar (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)     […]

Caralluma adscendens var. attenuata (Wight) Gravely & Mayur., Ind. Sp. Gen. Car. 13 1931. (Syn: Caralluma attenuata Wight);    Images by tspkumar & K M Prabhu Kumar (inserted by TSP Kumar & J.M.Garg)     Caralluma adscendens var. attenuata: This is Caralluma adscendens var. attenuata. I collected this species from Tamil Nadu. The type species of […]

Caralluma species;       Caralluma sp: this plant has peculiar habits! notice how the stems start pushing into the soil and then out through the waterhole! i found this very interesting.. id help appreciated Excellent some species of Euphorbiaceae, I think peculiar feature is due t its xeric habit where the stem push into […]

Caralluma diffusa (Wight) N.E.Br., Gard. Chron. III, 12: 369 1892. (Syn: Boucerosia diffusa Wight; Desmidorchis diffusa (Wight) Kuntze); . Caralluma diffusa: 6 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (6) This is Carlluma diffusa (Wight) N. E. Brown, collected from Tamil Nadu. Caralluma R.Br., Caralluma named from the Arabian ‘qarh alluhum’, a flesh wound or abscess; for […]

Caralluma umbellata Haw., Syn. Pl. Succ. 47 1812. (Syn: Boucerosia campanulata Wight; Boucerosia lasiantha Wight; Boucerosia umbellata (Haw.) Wight & Arn.; Boucerosia umbellata var. companulata (Wight) Hook. f.; Caralluma campanulata (Wight) N.E.Br.; Caralluma lasiantha N.E.Br.; Desmidorchis umbellata (Haw.) Decne.; Desmidorchis umbellata (Haw.) M.R.Almeida; Desmidorchis umbellata (Haw.) Kuntze; Stapelia callamulia Buch.-Ham. ex Hook.f. (Unresolved); Stapelia umbellata Donn […]

Caralluma adscendens (Roxb.) R.Br., Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 25 1809. (Syn: Boucerosia adscendens (Roxb.) Wall.); .  Marathi– “Makadshingi”; . Others Irula : Ekkae chedi Tamil Kallimulaiyan, Muyal kombu chedi Habit: A small succulent herb, upto 70cm Flower- Solitary or terminal racemes; brown to dark purple. Flowering November-March. Fruit- An oblong-linear follicle, apically beaked; […]