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Can plant experts, botanists, confirm Spiraea L., Rosaceae?

Dear botanists, Dear all, can you confirm Spiraea L., Rosaceae? It was photographed in the western Himalaya (Uttarakhand: Mussoorie, 2000 m). A small bush, common along roads in suburbs of...

27 May 2020 1,420 14 View

Can experts help to identify a plant from the western Himalaya?

There is a need to identify this plant, an important host plant for some leaf-mining insects in the western Himalaya. We would greatly appreciate any your help! It is a small tree. Photographed...

25 May 2020 5,048 15 View

The genus Persea (Lauraceae) or Oxandra (Annonaceae)?

There is a need to identify this plant, an important host plant for some leaf-mining insects in Bolivia (paper in prep.). We would greatly appreciate any your help. Photographed in June 2018, in...

31 October 2018 5,128 16 View

A plant from the Himalaya: Can it be a Bistorta amplexicaulis, Polygonaceae?

Photographed in the Himalaya, Uttarakhand, Dhanolti, at an elevation about 2200 m. What you think, can it be a Bistorta amplexicaulis (D. Don) Greene? Or other Bistorta or even other Polygonaceae...

26 October 2017 8,841 5 View

Does the attached Andean plant belong to Urticaceae? What you think?

Unfortunately, no flowers. Looks repent. Locality: the Andes, Ecuador, SW of Riobamba, about 3100 m Your comment would be much appreciated!

14 July 2016 4,315 20 View

Urticaceae? We identified the photographed Andean plant as Clidemia D.Don, Melastomataceae? Most likely we are wrong, what you think?

We supposed that the photographed plant is a Clidemia species (Melastomataceae) but the experts say that it is Urticaceae. We would appreciate your opinion. The photographs were taken in the...

09 July 2016 9,880 16 View

Which Fabaceae genus can you recognize in the two attached photos of a plant from Bolivia (Coroico, elevation about 1600 m)?

Yes, I know... Unfortunately, the photos are not of the best quality...

03 June 2016 9,622 6 View

Could someone help with the plant phylogeny?

Can you recommend for an entomology researcher a decent cladogram on angiosperms or at least rosids or asterids (or fabids, malvids, lamiids, campanulids)?

23 February 2016 3,112 9 View

Is it correct to treat southern (austral) Andean fauna and flora as Patagonian fauna and flora?

Are there recent references published on the subject?

04 October 2014 870 4 View

Fabaceae: is it Inga edulis Mart. or Inga punctata Willd.?

Photographed in Ecuador: Chimborazo Province, Bucay (Cumanda), 2°12'11"S, 79°8'26"W, elevation 300 m (humid tropical forest & orchards on the western foothills of the Andes). We would greatly...

01 January 1970 3,604 4 View

Polygonaceae? Does anyone know this plant?

It was photographed in the western Andes, at the elevation of about 1900–2000 m (Ecuador). The stems seem to be creeping, even climbing. Polygonaceae? But no fused, sheathing stipules known as an...

01 January 1970 9,686 8 View

What the experts say: Boehmeria, Urticaceae OR Acalypha, Euphorbiaceae?

The Andes, Ecuador, Baños, about 1800 m It seems likely that this is a Boehmeria plant (resembling Boehmeria caudata Sw.?). Or we are wrong? Could it be an Acalypha, Euphorbiaceae? We would...

01 January 1970 2,124 7 View

Two equatorial species of Acalypha L., Euphorbiaceae: would experts have a look please to the photos attached?

Both from Ecuador: "A" - from western slopes of the Andes, 1500 m; "B" - from the Amazon Basin, 400 m, indentified by me as Acalypha diversifolia Jack. What experts think about the identification...

01 January 1970 3,748 3 View