Category: Fabaceae (Leguminosae)

  Calliandra brevipes Benth.  (Cultivated) Calliandra calothyrsus Meisn. (Cultivated) (image by Aarti S. Khale & Dinesh Valke) Calliandra eriophylla Benth.  (cultivated) Calliandra haematocephala Hassk. (cultivated) Calliandra houstoniana (Mill.) Standl. (cultivated)    Calliandra surinamensis Benth. (Cultivated)   Calliandra tergemina var. emarginata (Willd.) Barneby  (cultivated) From Floral Database of Tamilnadu :   Binomial Habit Notes References Distribution Calliandra brevipes Benth. Tree Plains, Cultivated, Native of […]

  Key in Flora of Bhutan: 1. Erect shrub . .. 1. C. cajan + Twiners, herbaceous or woody …… .. 2 2. Leaves pinnately trifoliate ……… .. 3 + Leaves subdigitately trifoliate …….. ..4 3. Leaflets small 2-4.5cm, elliptic or obovate, acute or subacute … 2. C. scarabaeoides + Leaflets larger 5-10cm, obovate, acuminate […]

  Caesalpinia bonduc(L.) Roxb. Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd. Caesalpinia crista L. Caesalpinia cucullata Roxb. Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston Caesalpinia enneaphylla Roxb. (Sri Lanka, Assam to China (S. & SW. Guangxi, Yunnan) and Sulawesi: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Pakistan (I), Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)       Caesalpinia ferrea C.Mart Caesalpinia mimosoides Lam […]

Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taub. Images by J.M.Garg, Debasish Joardar, Satish Phadke, Gurcharan Singh etc. (Inserted by J.M.Garg)     Butea superba Roxb. Butea superba (left) and monosperma (right) flowers   Butea page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. Pl. go through Butea page with images of species (done by …) […]

Brownea coccinea Jacq.        Brownea crawfordii W. Watson ?  Brownea grandiceps Jacq.     Brownea species- IIM Kozhikode   Brownea species- Lalbagh – Bangalore   Floriculture in India By Gurcharan Singh Randhawa, Amitabha Mukhopadhyay (1986)- Description- Cultivated in India- Brownea coccinea & Brownea grandiceps Jacq.   Tropical Planting and Gardening with Sepcial Reference to […]

Astragalus amherstianus Benth. Astragalus chlorostachys Lindl. Astragalus confertus Bunge Astragalus frigidus (L.) A.Gray Astragalus grahamianus Benth.   Astragalus graveolens Buch.-Ham.        Astragalus himalayanus Klotzsch Astragalus leucocephalus Bunge Astragalus leucocephalus ? Astragalus multiceps Benth. Astragalus munroi Bunge Astragalus nivalis Kar. & Kir. Astragalus ophiocarpus Boiss. Astragalus oplites Benth. ex R. Parker (China (Xinjiang), Tibet, Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, […]

Arachis glabrata Benth.  Arachis hypogaea L. Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg. ? Arachis page with images of species in efloraofindia : 1 post by 1 author. Pl. go through Arachis page with images of species (done by …) in efloraofindia. If you find any mis-identification, pl. let us know. If anybody can send images of other […]

Amherstia nobilis Wall. 

Alysicarpus bupleurifolius (L.) DC. Alysicarpus bupleurifolius var. gracilis (Edgew.) Baker Alysicarpus gautalensis Gholami & A.K.Pandey (Maharastra as per BSI Flora of India) Alysicarpus glumaceus (Vahl) DC.  Alysicarpus hamosus Edgew. Alysicarpus heterophyllus (Baker) Jafri & Ali   Alysicarpus heyneanus Wight & Arn. Alysicarpus longifolius (Spreng.) Wight & Arn. Alysicarpus luteovexillatus Naik & Pokle  Alysicarpus monilifer (L.) DC. Alysicarpus […]

Alhagi maurorum Medik.  Alhagi species in India: Alhagi maurorum Medik. Alhagi nepalensis (D.Don) Shap. Alhagi pseudalhagi (M.Bieb.) Desv. ex B.Keller & Shap. References: Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun. pp.76-77. eFI page

Albizia amara (Roxb.) B.Boivin Albizia chinensis (Osbeck) Merr. (Albizia julibrissin Durazz (Ornamental in India) has stamen colour is pink as per keys at Flora of China, while it is green-white or yellow in Albizia chinensis (wild in India)). Albizia julibrissin Durazz (It (ornamental in India) has stamen colour pink as per keys at Flora of China, while it is green-white or yellow in Albizia chinensis (wild in […]

  Aeschynomene species in India: Aeschynomene americana L Aeschynomene aspera L. Aeschynomene indica L. References: Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun. pp.75. eFI page .  Aeschynomene americana L.  images by Shobha Halwe-Chavda & Dinesh Valke Aeschynomene aspera L. images by Aarti S. Khale & Surajit Koley Aeschynomene indica L. . From Floral […]

Adenanthera microsperma Teijsm. & Binn.   Adenanthera pavonina L.  images by Dr. R.K. Chaudhary (seeds) & Prashant Awale Images by tspkumar   

Acrocarpus fraxinifolius Arn.  

Acacia auriculiformis Benth. Acacia bivenosa DC. image by Arpit Deomurari Acacia colei Maslin & L.A.J.Thomson Acacia dealbata Link (SE. Australia: New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria; Introduced into: Albania, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Azores, Brazil South, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, China South-Central, China Southeast, Costa Rica, Desventurados Is., East Himalaya, Easter Is., Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Italy, Jamaica, Juan Fernández […]

  Abrus species in India: Abrus fruticulosus Wight & Arn. Abrus precarorius L. Abrus pulchellus Thwaites [subsp. pulchellus; subsp. mollis Hance) Verc.] References: Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehradun. pp.74. eFI page Abrus fruticulosus Wight & Arn. (Images by Vijayasankar Raman (Inserted by J.M.Garg)) Abrus precatorius L. Abrus pulchellus Thwaites  […]

Bauhinia acuminata L. Bauhinia blakeana Dunn. (As per efi thread: Bauhinia x blakeana has three large stamens (with two smaller ones) unlike five long stamens of Kachnar (Bauhinia variegate). Leaves are also not over-lapping near cleft unlike in Kachnar.) (Keys at HYBRID ORIGIN OF BAUHINIA BLAKEANA (pdf)) Bauhinia galpinii N.E.Br. Images by Aarti Khale, Gurcharan Singh (Identified by S. Kasim) […]