Category: Gentianaceae

Some Swertia species of NW Himalayas, and a Key to species-GS11012020-1 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)- 6 mb. Some Beautiful Swertia species from Western Himalayas. Here are some species clicked from Western Himalayas A, B, a still unidentified species, perhaps a good material for young researchers, Deovan Herbal Garden, Chakrata, September 17, […]

Tripterospermum volubile (D. Don) H. Hara   

Canscorinella bhatiana (K.S. Prasad & Raveendran) Shahina & Nampy Images by Shahina Shanavas, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details). Canscorinella stricta (Sedgwick) Nampy & Shahina Image by Shahina Shanavas, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details)   Canscorinella Shahina & Nampy[1] The genus Canscorinella is similar to Canscora, from which it differs […]

Hoppea dichotoma Willd. Hoppea fastigiata (Griseb.) C.B.Clarke      Hoppea Willd. (Gentianaceae) The genus Hoppea has two species distributed mainly in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Both the species occur in India. Key to the species of Hoppea [1] 1.  Flowers sessile or pedicellate; calyx longer than the corolla lobes; corolla yellow; stamens inserted below the […]

As per efi thread: It is Jaeschkea canaliculata as the calyx lobes are ovate and not lanceolate as per keys in Flora of Pakistan. Jaeschkea oligosperma looks different as per GBIF specimens- one and two. .  Jaeschkea canaliculata (Royle ex G. Don) Knobl.       / FRLHT Indian Medicinal Plants Nomenclature Database with images/ herbarium, distribution, local names etc. : Jaeschkea gentianoides KURZ. = Jaeschkea oligosperma (Griseb.) […]

Comastoma pedunculatum (Royle ex G.Don) Holub Images by Saroj Kasaju (ID confirmation Krishan Lal), Gurinder Goraya, Gurcharan Singh, Narendra Joshi, Suresh Rana (ID confirmation Gurcharan Singh), inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images). Images by Prashant Awale (ID DS Rawat) and Alok Mahendroo (ID DS Rawat), inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images).   A REVISION […]

Enicostema axillare (Poir. ex Lam.) A.Raynal Images by Arvind Kadus (ID Vijayasankar Raman), Gopal Shinde (ID JM Garg), Viplav Gangar, Aditya Dharap, P. Santhan and Prashant Awale, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images).        Biosystematic Studies on Enicostema axillare (Lam.) A. Raynal subsp. axillare (Gentianaceae) in Peninsular India by Shahina P.M., Santhosh Nampy- Pakistan Journal of Biological […]

  Gentianopsis paludosa (Hook.f.) Ma      Gentianopsis stricta (Klotzsch) Ikonn.   A REVISION OF GENTIANELLA, COMASTOMA AND GENTIANOPSIS (GENTIANACEAE) IN NEPAL by E. Aitkena- Edinburgh Journal of Botany / Volume 64 / Issue 02 / July 2007, pp 253-268-  Abstract– The genus Gentianella in Nepal is revised and five species are recognized: G. angustiflora […]

Fagraea ceilanica Thunb.: Images by Satish Phadke, N Arun (ID Rajesh Sachdev), Badri Narayan (ID Muthu Karthick), Harithasandhya, Dinesh Valke and Siva Siva (ID Micheal vdP), inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images).

Lomatogonium brachyantherum (C.B. Clarke) Fernald     Lomatogonium carinthiacum (Wulfen) A.Braun  Lomatogonium spathulatum (A. Kern.) Fernald  . FRLHT Indian Medicinal Plants Nomenclature Database with images/ herbarium, distribution, local names etc. : Lomatogonium carinthiacum (WULF.) BR. . Species with description & pictures in Flowers of India as on 27.6.14: Botanical name Synonyms Family Common name Lomatogonium carinthiacum […]

  Halenia elliptica D.Don           Halenia perrottetii Griseb.    From Floral Database of Tamilnadu :    Binomial Habit Notes References Distribution Halenia perrottetii Griseb. Herb Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests, Grasslands Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987 Dindigul, Nilgiri   Species with description & pictures in Flowers of India as on […]

Gentiana albicalyx Burkill ?   Gentiana argentea (Royle ex D.Don) Royle ex D.Don Gentiana capitata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don Images by Alok Mahendroo, 2, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (please click links to see details and more images).          Gentiana capitata subsp. harwanensis (G.Singh) Halda: Images by Gurcharan Singh, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details).   Gentiana capitata group       Gentiana […]

Exacum anamallayanum Bedd. : Image by Shahina Shanavas, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details).      Exacum lawii C.B.Clarke : Images by Alka Khare (ID Shrikant Ingalhalikar), Prashant Awale (ID Shahina Shnavas), Prashant Awale, Dalia (ID Aditya Dharap) and Narendra Joshi (ID Aditya Dharap), inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details and more images). Exacum paucisquamum (C.B.Clarke) Klack. : Images by Dinesh Singh Rawat, inserted by Gurcharan […]

Eustoma grandiflorum (Raf.) Shinners: Images by Marianne de Nazareth (ID Ajinkya Gadave), inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details).     Species with description & pictures in Flowers of India as on 23.6.14:   Botanical name Synonyms Family Common name Eustoma grandiflorum Lisianthus russellianus, Bilamista grandiflora Gentianaceae Tulip Gentian          

Crawfurdia angustata C.B.Clarke Image by Kiran Srivastava, Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Click link to see details).    Crawfurdia speciosa Wallich Images by Tanay Bose, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Click links to see details).    A New Species of Crawfurdia Wall. (Gentianaceae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India by Sudhansu S. Dash*, Rajib Gogoi and Ashiho A. Mao- Vol.86 No.3 (June 2011)-  Crawfurdia arunachalensis […]

Centaurium pulchellum (Sw.) Druce :         . As per efi thread: Fortunately I have access to the document- ‘Revision of the family Gentianaceae of North West Himalaya’ by S.Garg (1982) based on which she later published “Gentianaceae of North West Himalaya: A Revision” (Garg 1988). The document says- After seeing plenty of dried as […]

Canscora alata (Roth) Wall. Images by Anurag Sharma and Shahina Shanavas,  inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images) Canscora andrographioides Griff. ex C.B.Clarke Images by Raju Das, inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click link to see details) Canscora diffusa (Vahl) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. Images by Alka Khare, Nidhan Singh, Prashant Awale, Dinesh Valke (ID Mahadeswara), Satish Nikam and Saroj Kasaju (ID confirmation Nidhan Singh), inserted by Gurcharan […]

Gentianella azurea (Bunge) Holub (N. Europe to Mongolia and Himalaya: Altay, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, North European Russi, Norway, Qinghai, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Tuva, West Himalaya, Xinjiang as per POWO) Gentianella moorcroftiana (Wall. ex Griseb.) Airy Shaw           . A REVISION OF GENTIANELLA, COMASTOMA AND GENTIANOPSIS (GENTIANACEAE) IN NEPAL by E. Aitkena- […]