Please check the Biodiversity portal link provided : http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31783. The details are also reproduced below *.
Two characters i.e. leaves velvety hairy on the underside and stigma bifid do not tally with the description provided in the portal. *Trees, to 25 m, bark brownish to greyish-brown, longitudinally fissured, blaze creamy-yellow, fibrous; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipule large, coriaceous; petiole 10-25 mmlong, stout, glabrous, lamina 6-18 x 3.5-9 cm, elliptic, oblong, elliptic-ovate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic lanceolate, base round or subcordate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire,* glabrous*, coriaceous; lateral nerves 12-16 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, light pink, 10-13 mm long, in drooping axillary and terminal panicles; pedicels to 5 mm; sepals 5; 3 lobes much enlarged than the other 2, basally connate, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, accrescent, imbricate; petals 5, oblong, densely villous without; stamens 15; filaments to 1 mm; anthers 1.5 mm, linear; connectives appendaged, to 1.5 mm; ovary superior, globose, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style to 4 mm; *stigma 3-lobed*. Fruit a capsule, enclosed within accrescent sepals; wings oblong, unequal, 4-7 cm, prominently nerved; seed solitary, obovoid 7 x 4 mm. Please check again. I appreciate your way of presentation of the photographs , which will help the experts to ID easily. I will also try. Dr.Mahadeswara Swamy On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:47 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for validation please. > > efi page on Shorea roxburghii > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/d/dipterocarpaceae/shorea/shorea-roxburghii> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Balasubramanya Sharma <[email protected]> > Date: 11 March 2015 at 19:09 > Subject: [efloraofindia:217869] plant/mar15/6 > To: [email protected] > > > Hello, > > I need validation for the photos taken. These are photos of Shorea > talura, synonym of Shorea roxburghii at Doresanipalya Forest area, > Bangalore; photos include small tree with leaves and individual flowers. > The leaves are ovate-elliptic 5-15 cm in lenght, serrate & wavy with > velvety hairs on the under side and prominent nerves. The flowers have 5 > sepals, 5 petals and are twisted; stigma is bifid. > > Thanks, > S. Balasubramanya Sharma > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of > Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
