Gymnostachyum canescens (Nees) T.Anderson
synonym of Gymnostachyum pubescens (Lam.) M.R.Almeida
commonly known as: large flowered calacanthus • Hindi: करंब karamb • Kannada: ಬಿಳಿ ಗೋರಂಟೆ bili gorante • Malayalam: കരിംകുറിഞ്ഞി karimkurunni, വെള്ളക്കുറിഞ്ഞി vellakurunni • Marathi: मुगूट mugut • Sanskrit: सहचरः sahacarah • Tulu: ಬೊಳ್ಡು ಗೋರಟೆ boldu gorate
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India
commonly known as: cup-calyxed white cedar • Assamese: বান্দৰ ডিমা bandor dima • Bengali: বড গোটাধরা bara gotadhora • Garo: bol-narang, masispel • Kachari: bon-dau-iung, rata • Kannada: ಅಗಿಲ್ agil, ಕಾಡು ಗಂಧ kadu gandha • Karbi: khrang-kelok-arong • Konkani: एरंड erand, यरंडी yerandi • Malayalam: അകില് akil • Marathi: देवदारू devadaru, येरिंडी yerindi • Mech: dingari-guphut, dingi-bomphang • Miri: galing-asing • Mizo: saha-ṭah • Naga: herenthak-chi-ching • Sylheti: hota-rata • Tamil: அகுணியகில் akuniyakil, செம்பில் cempil • Tippera: kaksok
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/8287233642/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/8287235202/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/8287286544/
Many thanks to Dr. Prabhukumar KM (one of the author of this species) for the ID ... efloraofindia.
Present in vegetative state on the rocks and trailing on the ground in rocky habitat.
Many thanks to Radha Veach for validating the ID.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/51415796438/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/51416514685/
Many thanks to Shiwalee Samant for sighting and ID.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/9953207504/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/9953302373/
Many thanks to Dr Vijayasankar Raman for the ID ... efloraofindia.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14536072935/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/14553634813/
Thanks to Jeewan Singh for the ID ... facebook.
Dicoelospermum ritchiei C.B.Clarke
http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60446882-2
Present near the lake in small numbers.
treated as synonym of Gymnostachyum pubescens (Lam.) M.R.Almeida at POWO
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/16410813506/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/15816728863/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/16410823216/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/31132490622/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/31132573212/
Thanks to Dr Navendu Page for the ID ... efloraofindia.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/31410306235/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/31374451046/
Many thanks to Radha Veach for providing all the guidance and pointers w.r.t. the distribution and identification of this plant.
Distribution: In the forest of Tungareshwar Mountain, this plant is present at only evergreen patches and concentrated with dense population at few locations at these patches.
Distribution mentioned in the flora documentation:
Some of the details of the plant observed :
Only one plant was seen in flowering -but could not observe flowers in detail as they were high up. Rest of the larger plants were in fruiting/seed dispersal stage.
Stems : lenticillate , terete, not striated, mature stems glabrous and very young stems are pubescent
Leaves can be as long as 5.5(or little more) inches, petiole of leaves(young leaves) are rufous pubescent but the leaf surface is glabrous on both sides. Minute glands are present at the base of the midvein on upper surface(as mentioned in Fl. of Anshi N.P- Sachin Punekar et al)
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/8257565382/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/8257562362/
Many thanks to Radha Veach for the ID.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2978995930/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2978994454/
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Many thanks to Dr Pankaj Kumar Sahani for the ID.
commonly known as: golden-yellow eulophia • Khandeshi: शिंगाड्या कंद shingadya kand • Marathi: अमरकंद amarkand
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/4469823854/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/4469047263/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/5780294000/
Many thanks to Shrikant Ingalhalikar for the ID.
commonly known as: curled aerides • Marathi: पान शिंग pan shing, रुक शिंग ruk shing
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India
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Tentative ID based on following characteristics of the plant:
Leaves: Leaf blade gradually running into the petiole. Petioles shorter than the blade. Leaf-blades elongate-lanceolate or elongate-elliptical , 10-30 cm long, leaf base-cuneate, running into the petiole, tip acuminate
Spathe: Spathe with the tube between the kettle and limb.
Spathe tube gradually changing into the spathe limb.
Spathe Limb: limb spirally twisted above (7 or more turns resembling a cork-screw),
Spathe limb opening by a narrow slit.
Habitat :Gregariously present in shallow water patches and moist soil in the river bed of Tansa river.
Few Caterpillars same as the observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69802904
were also present on the leaf of the plant. (observation of the caterpillar: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69846291)
Scale for seeds in 0.5 mm intervals. Seeds of same plants as those in this observation: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2104117
Ants carrying the fallen flowers of Neuracanthus trinervius in the evening. Some of the flowers of Neuracanthus trinervius fall on the forest floor by evening. The fallen flowers do not look much wilted. There are certain flowers which dry out on the plant itself. I did not see any ants on the plant or the flower spikes.
Not sure about why the Ants carry these flowers but there is one reference mentioned in the article in Bombay natural history journal(1892)- 'Our ants' by 'Robert Wroughton' :
'Curiously enough, these same species (or at any rate Meranoplus) harvest a small purple flower, and in that case, they bring home the whole flower, and strew the petals around the entrance, exactly as Pheidole, and the others, do the chaff of the grass seed.'
He mentions in other part of the article that the chaff of grass strewn may serve as fortification.
Leaves are infected by galls induced by likely a member of Cecidomyiidae
Present in the shallow water patches of the riverbed.
Barleria longiflora L.f.
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The branches of this plant were present in the water freely. Present in the small water patches (which were slowly drying up) near the lake.
Present on the crevices of cement structure. Other plants of the same species are also present along water patches nearby.
Scientific name
Bulbophyllum fimbriatum (Lindl). Rchb.f.
Common name-
Fringed orchid, Umbrella orchid, Banana orchid.
मराठी नाव-
छत्री अमरी.
Family-
Orchideaceae.
Endemic to Western Ghats of India.
The Small Indian Civet (Viverricula indica) is a civet native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because of its widespread distribution, widespread habitat use and healthy populations living in agricultural and secondary landscapes of many range states.
Botanical name-
Eulophia pratensis.
Common name-
Meadow eulophia.
Meadow eulophia is a terrestrial orchid upto 50cm tall. Typically found in marshy and grassy area along river beds and seasonal water channels. It's Endemic to Western Ghats, nearly threatened species
Flowering period- December to Match
Observed at Mangrove habitat.
Rare and recently rediscovered ground orchid found in satpuda hills
Habenaria diphylla (Orchidaceae)
Sometimes wrongly identified as habenaria reniformis which has differnt distribution than this species H.reniformis found in eastern himalayan regione and Habenaria diphylla is found in western Maharashtra in kokan region
Deccan Morning Glory is a small climber found in the undergrowth of forests on ground ferns and small herbs, velvet-hairy with spreading trichomes. Leaves are entire or 3-5-lobed, Flowers are borne in boat-shaped involucrate bract, in head like cymose cluster. The outer bracts are ovate, basally flat-heart-shaped, apically pointed, each separate bract 1.5 cm long, the inner bracts smaller. Flowers are stalkless to nearly so. Sepals are nearly equal, lanceshaped-tapering, 7-9 mm long, velvet-hairy with spreading trichomes. Flowers are purplish to pink, funnel-shaped, 1.5-2 cm long. Fruits are nearly spherical, 5 mm long, brown, hairless. Deccan Morning Glory is found in India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: November-January.