Jungle Riders

A memorable trip to Gir Forest on from 24th to 25th march 2017.

Camping at pavana lake, lonavla on new moon day. An experience to be experienced ;)

Blackbucks on the road.

Amazing sunset at Diveagar beach, Maharastra.

Common name: Konkan Dipcadi
Botanical name: Dipcadi concanense (Dalzell)
Family: Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Synonyms: Ornithogalum concanense, Uropetalon concanense

Konkan Dipcadi is a small rare herb found in the Konkan region of Western Ghats. Flowers are white, borne in 2-6-flowered racemes. Bracts are triangular long-pointed, shorter than the flower-stalks. Flower-stalks are 0.8-1.2 cm long. Flower-tube is about 3.7 cm long, with the petals much shorter than the tube, nearly equal. Bulb is small, and the leaves are few, 6-9 inches long, fleshy thread-like, round, deeply grooved above. The flowering stem 0.1-1 ft tall, round in cross-section.

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Common name: Double Paired Smithia
Marathi: लहान कावळा lahan kawala
Botanical name: Smithia bigemina
Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)

Double Paired Smithia is an annual herb, 15-30 cm tall, with bristly branches. Leaves are strange, with two pairs of almost stalkless leaflets, 9-12 mm long, 4.5-9 mm broad. The species name bigemina precisely means double paired. Leaflets are obovate, serrated, tip blunt and bristle-pointed, base rounded or subacute. Inflorescence is a 2-8-flowered peduncled axillary cyme. Calyx bristly 2-lipped ; lower 3-lobed ; upper slightly emarginate. Yellow flower tube 4-8 mm long, twice the length of calyx. Stamens 5+5; anthers uniform. Pods 6-8 jointed, joints reticulate. Flowering: September-December

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Common name: जांभली मंजिरी Jambhli Manjiri (Marathi)
Botanical name: Pogostemon deccanensis (Panigrahi)
Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Eusteralis deccanensis

Jambhli manjiri is a small erect acquatic herb which grows up to 8-20 cm high. Branched stems are leafy, and arise out of creeping rootstocks. Narrow stalkless leaves occur in whorls of 5 or more. Flowers occur in dense hairy branched spikes, 3-7 cm long. Flower tube is hairy and purple, 2-3 mm. Hairy purple stamens protrude out of the flowers.

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commonly known as: spherical pipewort • Marathi: गेंद gend
Species Name : Eriocaulon sedgwickii
Family : Eriocaulaceae
Habit : Small herb
Habitat : Near (in) aquatic grassland
Location : Jummapatti, Matheran, Maharashtra
Date : September, 2012
Note : Known to be Western Ghats endemic

commonly known as: Purple Bladderwort, Marathi: सीतॆची आस्वे Seetechi-aswe
Species Name: Utricularia purpurascens
Family: Utricularia
Habitat: Terrestrial, in seasonally wet rocky areas. Habitat: Open rocky areas, moist soil on plateaus, along streams, ephemeral ponds.
Flowering period: August – October
Location: Kaas Plateau, Maharashtra

Enjoying horse shoe waterfall - Rajmachi

Sunset from Shrivardhan fort - Rajmachi