Collection No.

1
Date: 20/1/2013

Name:

Aparajita.

Family:

Papillinoceae.

Genus:

Clitoria

Species:

ternatea Linn.

Locality:

Hadapsar.

Notes:

Perenial climber
Leaves: pinnately 3-7 foliolate
Flowers: Showy, blue, petals uneqal, style bearded below the
stigma
Fruits: pods, linear compressed.
Seeds: 6-10, Black

Collection No. 2
Date: 8/8/11

Name:

Aragvadha

Family:

Leguminosae.

Genus:

Cassia

Species:

fistula Linn.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

Moderate-sized tree, 3-5 m. in height.

Bark: greenish-grey or brick red.
Leaves: paripinnate, 5-12cm long; leaflet 8-16 acuminate,
ovate-lanceolate
Flowers: in lax pedunlous racemes, yellow, fragrant.
Pods: cylindrical, pendulous, indehiscent, 25-30cm long & 1.3-3
cm diameter.
Seeds: numerous, small, flat,smooth, yellowish grey, surrounded
by black pulp when ripen.

Collection No. 3
Date: 8/8/11

Name:

Atibala.

Family:

Malvaceae.

Genus:

Abutilon

Species:

indicum Linn.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

perennial softly tomentose shrub, stem- round, frequently tinged

with purple.
Leaves: ovate to orbicular cordate.
Flowers: solitary on jointed peduncles, orange yellow or yellow.
Capsules: hispid, hardly larger than the calyx.
Seeds: 3-5, reniform, tubercled or stellete-hairy, black or dark
brown.

Collection No. 4
Date: 7/9/12

Name:

Bharangi.

Family:

Verbenaceae.

Genus:

Clerodendron

Species:

serratum Linn.

Locality:

Amba-ghat.

Notes:

Shrub, 1.5 3 m. in height, glabrous; hollow branches.

Leaves: opposite, lanceolate
Flowers: elongated terminal panicles; bracts linear; calyx
campanulate; corolla white, glabrous.
Fruits: drupes, blue.
Seeds: obolong.

Collection No. 5
Date: 7/9/12

Name:

Bruhati.

Family:

Solanaceae.

Genus:

Solanum

Species:

indicum Linn.

Locality:

Amba-ghat.

Notes:

herbaceous, stout 2 m high, prickly and densly wooly.

Leaves: ovate with short triangular lobes, villous above,
stellately fulvous-woolly beneath.
Flowers: in dense recemes, wooly, with needle-like hairs, calyx
shortly funnel shaped, lobes ovate-triangular, corolla white-blue,
oblong, acute.
Fruits: berries, yellow when ripe.

Collection No. 6
Date: 8/8/11

Name:

Danti.

Family:

Euphorbiaceae.

Genus:

Baliospermum

Species:

montanum Muell.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

Stout monoecious leafy shrub, 0.9-2 m. in height.

Leaves: sinuate-toothed,
lower large, 15-30 cm long; oblong-ovate, palmately
3-5 lobed; upper small 5-8 cm long lanceolate; petioles
with pair of stipular glands
Flowers: in axillary racemes, all male or with few female below.
Fruits: capsule, obovoid, large.
Seeds: obolong, mottled.

Collection No. 7
Date: 20/1/2013

Name:
Family:

Eranda.
Euphobiaceae.

Genus:

Ricinus

Species:

communis Linn.

Locality:

Hadapsar.

Notes:

An evergreen, glabrous shrub, 2-4.5 m. in height.

Leaves: palmately 7 many lobed, lobose oblong to linear, acute
or acuminate
Flowers: in large terminal subpanicled racemes; in a dense
globose head of branched filaments and anthers; yellowish.
Fruits: capsules, globosely oblong, smooth or echinate.
Seeds: oblong, smooth, mottled.

Collection No. 8
Date: 9/8/11

Name:

Gambhari.

Family:

Verbenaceae.

Genus:

Gmelina

Species:

arborea Linn.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

Large deciduous tree, 20 m. high.

Leaves: large, tomentose underneath, cordate-ovate, acuminate.
Flowers: yellow, tinged with brown, in terminal and axillary
racemiform panicles, composed of lateral cymes.
Fruits: drupes, yellow when ripe.
Seeds: obolong.

Collection No. 9
Date: 7/9/12

Name:

Gojivha.

Family:

Compositacae.

Genus:

Elephantopus

Species:

scaber

Locality:

Amba Ghat

Notes:

herbs, whole plant scabrous.

Leaves-radical, rossetted at base, 6-18 x 2-5 cm, obovate to
oblong or oblanceolate, base attenuate, margin crenate, apex
obtuse or broadly acute, narrow, sessile, base amplexicaule.
Flowers 2-5, bisexual. Corolla purple; tube 5-6 mm long, lobes
5. Stamens 5, auricled at base. Ovary 3 -4 mm, oblong; style
arms subulate. Achenes 4-5 mm long, 10-ribbed. Pappus of 4-6
spiny bristles.

Collection No. 10
Date: 21/12/12

Name:

Kakodumbara.

Family:

Moraceae.

Genus:

Ficus

Species:

hispida Linn.

Locality:

Ulavi.

Notes:

Shrubs to medium sized trees, up to 10 m tall. Trunk & BarkBark

brownish, lenticellate; blaze pink.
Leaves: simple, opposite, decussate, elliptic-oblong,apex
caudate acuminate, base rounded subcordate or truncatesubcordate, margin entire or dentate, scabrid on both surface,
hispid beneath.
Flower: clustered on tubercles of main trunk, older branches and
sometimes on pendulous leafless branches; unisexual.
Fruit and Seed: Syconium, globose.

Collection No. 11
Date: 7/9/12

Name:

Kantakari.

Family:

Solanaceae.

Genus:

Solanum

Species:

xanthocarpum Scharad.

Locality:

Amba Ghat

Notes:

a prickly diffused herb.

Leaves ovate or elliptic sinuate or subpinnatifid glabrescent,
with straight spikes.
Flowers- in few flowered lateral cymes, blue coloured; corolla
with shallow lobes.
Fruit- globose berries, glabrous, whitish and green-blotched,
yellow when ripe. Seeds -many, glaboous.

Collection No. 12
Date: 8/9/12

Name:

Kukkutnakhi

Family:

Dryopteridaceae

Genus:

Tectoria

Species:

coadunata

Locality:

Amba Ghat

Notes:

a pteridophyte fern. Rhizome short creeping, densely scaly at

the apex; apex acuminate. Stipes scattered. Lamina ovate or
broadly ovate, about 3040 cm; base cordate, bipinnate or
bipinnatifid. Primary pinnae was opposite to subopposite or
alternate, about 8 cm apart, slightly ascending; secondary
pinnae mostly adnate and decurrent, about five pairs, alternate
about 2 cm apart. Multicellular hairs densely distributed all over
the lamina except the abaxial side of the main rachis.
Compital- spores are reniform or planoconvex or spherical, pale
brown with broad anasomosed winged perispore.

Collection No. 13
Date: 8/8/11

Name:

Kumari

Family:

Liliaceae

Genus:

Aloe

Species:

vera

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

a perennial plant with short stem, smaller asiatic form

Leaves: 30cm long, erect, fleshy, lanceolate; recurved at tips,
rounded beneath, blue-green with white markings and whitish
teeth.
Flowers- orange.

Collection No. 14
Date: 20/1/2013

Name:

Lajjalu.

Family:

Mimosaceae.

Genus:

Mimosa

Species:

pudica Linn.

Locality:

Hadapsar.

Notes:

Prickly woody herb with diffuse branches.

Leaves: bipinnate, very sensitive; leaflet- 12-20 pairs, 8 cm long
and obliquely narrow , obolong.
Flowers: globose, pinkish head
Fruits: pods, 1-3 cm long, flat, membranous.

Collection No. 15
Date: 7/9/12

Name:

Langali

Family:

Liliaceae

Genus:

Gloriosa

Species:

superba

Locality:

Amba Ghat

Notes:

glabrous herbaceous climber, tuberous root-stock is cylindrical,

bifurcated, plough-shaped with two limbs equal or unequal in
length, pointed at the ends. Two slender terate herbaceous
glabrous slightly glaucous unbranched shoots arise that bears
sessile or subsessile leaves.
Leaves: alternate, opposite or ovate-lanceolate with acuminate
tips spirally twisted to serve as tendrils.
Flowers: showy, large solitary or sub-corymbose with perianth
segments which have wavy margins.greenish first and later
becoming yellow and finally scarlet or crimson.
Capsule: coriaceous, septicidol. Seeds- few, sub globose, wing
like.

Collection No. 16
Date: 8/9/12

Name:

Patha

Family:

Menispermaceae

Genus:

Cissampelous

Species:

pariera Linn.

Locality:

Amba Ghat

Notes:

Climbing shrub, branches pubescent.

Leaves: peltate, 3.8-10 cm diameter
Flowers: minute, yellowish; male flowers in axillary cymes,
peduncle 18 mm long; sepals 4, hairy, obovate-oblong; petals
combined into a cyanthiform corolla, half the length of the
sepals; filament longer than corolla. Female flowerin elongate,
solitary or twin axillary racemes; pedicels very short; bract
foliaceous or nearly sessile orbicular or reniform. Sepal 1, ovate
oblong. Petal 1, subrotund.
Fruit: drupe, subglobose, hairy, red, endocarp transversely
ridged.

Collection No. 17
Date: 20/1/2013

Name:

Rakta chitrak.

Family:

Plumbaginaceae.

Genus:

Plumbago

Species:

rosea Linn.

Locality:

Hadapasar.

Notes:

This winter flowering plant begins to show off its soft red, festive
colors in time for winters. This is an erect or spreading, more or
less branched, herbaceous or half-woody plant 1.5 meters or
less in height.
Leaves: ovate to oblong-ovate, 8 to 13 centimeters long, slightly
drooping, and smooth, with entire, undulate or wavy margins,
pointed or blunt tip, and pointed base.
Spikes: 15 to 30 centimeters long.
Calyx is tubular, 8 to 10 millimeters long, and covered with
stalked, sticky glands. The corolla is bright red, the tube is
slender and about 2.5 centimeters long, and the limb, which
spreads, is about 3 cm in diameter.

Collection No. 18
Date: 20/1/2013

Name:

Rakta vasa.

Family:

Acanthaceae.

Genus:

Justicia

Species:

picta Linn

Locality:

Hadapsar.

Notes:

Shrub that will grow to 6-9 tall. Caricature plant is primarily

grown for its variegated foliage.
Leaves -Oval to elliptic are deep green varyingly blotched with
cream along the midveins.
Flowers- Terminal clusters (3-4 long) of red to purple-red
tubular with protruding stamens bloom in summer. Flowers often
do not appear on container plants, particularly if stems are
regularly pinched to promote new foliage growth.

Collection No. 19
Date: 7/9/12

Name:

Saptaparna.

Family:

Apocyanaceae.

Genus:

Alstonia

Species:

scholaris R. Br.

Locality:
Notes:

Amba Ghat
a larged tree with whorled branches and bitter milky juice .
Leaves: in whorls of 5-7 sometimes 11, cooriaceous, glabrous,
oblong or obovate- oblong, obtuse.
Flowers: greenish-white or greenish-yellow, fragrant,borne in
umbellate eymes.
Fruits: slender follicles, in pendulous clusters.
Seeds: possessing brown hair.

Collection No. 20
Date: 9/8/11

Name:

Sariva.

Family:

Asclepidaceae.

Genus:

Hemedismus

Species:

indicus R.Br.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

A slender twining or prostrate perennial with terete stem.

Leaves: from broadly obovate to oblong-elliptic, linear or linearlanceolate, obtuse or apiculate.
Flowers: small, yellow or greenish-purple in opposite, crowded
subsessile cymes.
Fruits: follicles.

Collection No. 21
Date: 21/12/12

Name:
Family-

Shanapushpi.
Fabaceae.

Genus:

Crotalaria

Species:

verrucosa Linn.

Locality:

Ulavi.

Notes:

Erect, branched herbs, stems striate, 4-angled.

Leaves: ovate-rhomboid or ovate-deltoid, base acute, apex
obtuse or acute, appressed-pubescent on both surfaces.
Flowers:terminal or leaf-opposed racemes. pedicels 3-5 mm
long; bracts lanceolate. Calyx pubescent, with deltoid, acute
lobes longer than the tube. Corolla blue or white,standard c. 1.2
cm long, broadly ovate; wings obovate; keels oblong.
Pods:oblong-cylindrical, inflated.
Seeds: cordiform, browinish.

Collection No. 22
Date: 9/8/11

Name:

Shatavari.

Family:

Liliaceae.

Genus:

Asparagus.

Species:

racemosus Willd.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

A tall climbing undershrub with annual woody erect stems.

Spines 5-13 mm long, recurved.
Cladodes: 1.5-2 cm long, in tufts of 2-6, curved.
Flowers: white, fragrant, in solitary or fascicled, simple or
branched racemes 2.5-5 cm long.
Fruits: berry, 5-6 mm diameter, red.

Collection No. 23
Date: 8/8/11

Name:

Shewta vasa.

Family:

Acanthaceae.

Genus:

Adhathoda

Species:

vasica Nees.

Locality:

Sawantawadi.

Notes:

A dense shrub.
Leaves: elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate.
Flowers: white, in dense spikes; bract ovate or obovate; calyx
deeply 5 lobed; stamen glabrous.
Fruits: four seeded capsules.
Seeds: glabrous.

Collection No. 24
Date: 9/8/11

Name:

Shweta kutaja

Family:

Apocynaceae.

Genus:

Holarrhena

Species:

antidysentrica.

Locality:

Savantwadi.

Notes:

A small decidous tree.

Leaves: elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong.
Flowers: white, in corymbose cymes, fragrant.
Fruits: folicks, slender, parallel, terete, coriaceous, with white
spots.
Seeds: narrowly linear-oblong, glabrous.

Collection No. 25
Date: 20/1/13

Name:

Sinduri.

Family:

Bixaceae.

Genus:

Bixa

Species:

orellana Linn.

Locality:

Hadapsar.

Notes:

Woody shrub, heavily and densely branched.

Leaves: cordate, acuminate, shining, glabrous, 8-12 cm long.
Flowers: Pinkish, solitary, axillary
Fruits: capsule, spiny and red in colour.
Seed: many, bright red, tomentose.

Collection No. 26
Date: 20/1/13

Name:

Snuhi.

Family:

Euphorbiaceae.

Genus:

Euphorbia

Species:

nerilifolia Linn.

Locality:

Hadapsar.

Notes:

Small tree with heavy flowing milk latex.

Branches: cylindric, 2 sharp spines arises from spirally arranged
tubercles.
Leaves:alternate fleshy, clustered towards the end of the
branches, sessile, 10-20 cm long.
Fruits: capsules, 0,6 mm broad and contain smooth and flat
seeds.