Details of parts of Milkweed flower

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 […]

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Details of some important contributors- efi page updated

    Details of some important contributors- efi page updated :  1 post by 1 author. Pl. see the updated link, which reflects the diversity of our group. Old material has not been deleted while newer links have been added: Details of some important contributors          

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Kas- other details

Kas- other details;   Event : Kas Flora Walk   kaas tour.   The new (unwanted) face of Kaas – Maharashtra: Is this what we want Kas to be like! To stop the unregulated Flora tourism, are we justifying with local Fauna? Pic courtesy Jitendra Katre on Love Kaas, Conserve Kaas forum (FB group)   […]

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Books on Indian Flora- Details

   Books on Indian Trees & Plants: I have combined the feed back received from the members of Indiantreepix for the benefit of everybody & reproduced below (also attached as well as available for download from http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/files): You can add the wonderful book “100 Beautiful Trees of India” by Charles McCann (First Published 1959) to the […]

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Details of some important contributors

Details of some important contributors;   . A. Lalithamba Avadhanam Lalithamba – Star Expert of Oct.’17 Our tribute to two great ladies on this group Thanks to Krishnaraj ji, Shantanu ji, Lalithamba ji, Kunhikannan ji, Vijayasankar ji, D S Rawat ji, Samir ji, Shrikant ji among others- Fabaceae (Faboideae) Fortnight Oct’ 2015 Spl. thanks to Surajit […]

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eFloraofIndia website updated up to 30th April’24

eFloraofIndia website updated up to 30th April’24: more than 14,000 species: It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 4,64,900 messages so far & membership currently more than 3490 nos. efloraofindia (eFI in short) website is […]

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Dendrobium kallarense

Dendrobium kallarense J.Mathew, K.V.George, Yohannan & K.Madhus., Int. J. Advanced Res. 2(2): 799 (2014); . India (Kerala) as per POWO; . 552 ID wild Orchid: 9 high res. images. Please ID wild Orchid, Location: bloomed near Vannappuram Thodupuzha Idukki Kerala INDIA Altitude: 1500fsl Flower date: 02JAN2023, 02pm Habitat: wild moisture rocky sloppy grassland misty windy alpine […]

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Gardenia species?- Karnataka

Gardenia sp.: 1 image. Posted by … but getting clubbed in another thread. So posting again separately. Here is a Gardenia species from Karnataka. Kindly identify the species. There is only photo. Details not clear in this low resolution image. Pl. try https://efloraofindia.com/2011/03/02/gardenia/ I am doubtful. Pl. post high res. image. . DR1: Gardenia species: […]

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Acanthophippium

Acanthophippium bicolor Lindl. (S. & E. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO)    Acanthophippium curtisii Rchb. f. (E. Nepal to Japan (Yakushima) and Lesser Sunda Islands: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO) . Acanthophippium (Orchidaceae) page with comparative images: Pl. go through‎ Acanthophippium (Orchidaceae) page with comparative images […]

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Karnataka- Bluish black fruit from Brahmagiri Wildlife sanctuary

Bluish black fruit sp. from Brahmagiri Wildlife sanctuary: 2 images. Please help to id this species Details: Brahmagiri wildlife sanctuary, ghats section road from Makutta to Madikeri, KA March 24, 14, Tree, 1 Seeded fruit with spherical smooth brown surface It looks like Stychnos potatorum, Loganiaceae. Water clearing Nut. it is not, fruit is blackish, […]

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Alopecurus aequalis

Alopecurus aequalis Sobol., Fl. Petrop.: 16 (1799) (syn: Alopecurus aequalis var. amurensis (Kom.) Ohwi ; Alopecurus aequalis subsp. amurensis (Kom.) Hultén ; Alopecurus aequalis subsp. aristulatus (Michx.) Tzvelev ; Alopecurus aequalis var. aristulatus (Michx.) Tzvelev ; Alopecurus aequalis var. brachytrichus (Ohwi) Ohwi ; Alopecurus aequalis var. fluitans (Parodi) Mariano ; Alopecurus aequalis f. fluitans Parodi ; Alopecurus aequalis f. foliosus Parodi ; Alopecurus aequalis var. fulvus (Sm.) Sond. ; Alopecurus aequalis var. macrostachys Podp. ; Alopecurus aequalis f. natans (Wahlenb.) Holmb. ; Alopecurus aequalis var. natans (Wahlenb.) Fernald ; Alopecurus aequalis subsp. natans (Wahlenb.) Á.Löve […]

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eFloraofIndia website updated up to 31st March’24

eFloraofIndia website updated up to 31st March’24: more than 14,000 species: It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 4,63,800 messages so far & membership currently more than 3485 nos. efloraofindia (eFI in short) website is […]

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Benstonea species- Kamrup district, Assam

  Pandanus sp. (?) from Kamrup district, Assam: Attached images are Pandanus sp. (?)Please ID for it. Date : 21.12.2012 Location: Kamrup district Family : Pandanaceae Genus & species : Pandanus sp. (?) Habitat: Grows wild on. roky area near the stream. Habit : Herb Leaf : Spine present on one side of the margin. […]

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Tetrapanax papyrifer (Introduced)

Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch, Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 2: 371 (1859) (syn: Aralia mairei H.Lév. ; Aralia papyrifera Hook. ; Didymopanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch ex Ed.Otto ; Echinopanax papyrifer (Hook.) Kuntze ; Fatsia papyrifera (Hook.) Miq. ex Witte ; Panax papyrifer (Hook.) F.Muell. ); . Central & S. China, Taiwan; Introduced into: Alabama, Azores, Brazil South, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Madeira, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New […]

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Vernonieae member- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Plant ID: 1 image. Need help to ID this plant. Bhopal 08/02/2024. Flowers and leaf not clear. Could be Asteraceae ! Pl. post high res. image as details are fuzzy. It appears to be from Vernonieae, something like https://efloraofindia.com/2016/09/24/vernonieae/ Was it planted? Sure. Let me get back with more info.  

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Salix stomatophora

Salix stomatophora Floderus, Geogr. Ann. Svenska Sällsk. Antropol. 1935: 315 (1935) (syn: Salix bhutanensis Flod. ; Salix bhutanensis var. lasiopes (Z.Wang & P.Y.Fu) N.Chao ; Salix bhutanensis var. yadongensis (N.Chao) N.Chao ; Salix filistyla Z.Wang & P.Y.Fu ; Salix himalayensis var. filistyla (Z.Wang & P.Y.Fu) C.F.Fang ; Salix lasiopes Z.Wang & P.Y.Fu ; Salix nepalensis Yonek. ; Salix yadongensis N.Chao); . Central & E. Himalaya to Tibet: East Himalaya, Nepal, […]

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Efloraofindia website updated up to 29th Feb.’24

Efloraofindia website updated up to 29th Feb.’24: more than 14,000 species: It’s heartening to reiterate that Efloraofindia is the largest google e-group/ forum in the world in this field & the largest nature related e-group (and the most constructive) in India with around 4,62,700 messages so far & membership currently more than 3480 nos. efloraofindia (eFI in short) website is […]

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