Thanx Neil ji and Tanay, By any chance anyone having its flower photographs?
Shobha On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:54 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > *Hymenodictyon obovatum**, Wall.; F.B.I. III-36. Brandi's Ind. Trees. 372. > Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 407. Vern. Kurvi, Mar. * > > *----- *A large tree. *Leaves* crowded at the ends of the branches, > generally obovate, abruptly acuminate, some of the upper ones oblong or > ovate, glabrous on both sides except the axils of the nerves beneaeth, about > 4 in. long by 2 1/4 - 2 1/2 broad, pinnate veins rather prominent; petioles > 1 1/2 - 2 in. long; stipules ovate or oblong, gland-serrated, deciduous. * > Flowers* pentamerous, small, sessile, or sub-sessile furnished with > linear, narrow, stiff bracts at their base in dense cylindrical racemes, > which are terminal, erect, pubescent, several together, generally simple, > rarely with one or two branches, each generally furnished with only one > floral leaf just below the flowers, which is a little rugose above, pure > white or cream-coloured, beautifully veined and reticulated and slightly > pubescent beneath about 2 in. long and on a shining petiole of the same > length; sometimes this floral leaf is absent on one or more of the racemes. > *Calyx* very hairy, lobes lanceolate, acute. *Stamens* monadelphous in a > tube which is adnate to the base of the corolla, but easily separable. * > Capsule* 2-celled, 2-valved, dehiscing loculicidally; seeds flat, > imbricate, surrounded by a reticulated wing which is bifid at the base. > > Reference: Forest Flora of Hyderabad State - by M Sharfuddin Khan > > > Tanay > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Ms.Chavda, >> This is Kuthan [Hymenodictyon obovatum]. >> With regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> --- On *Sat, 6/19/10, shobha chavda <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: shobha chavda <[email protected]> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:38944] Request for ID-190610SC2-which is this >> tree? >> To: "indiantreepix" <[email protected]> >> Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 5:33 PM >> >> >> Dear All, >> Posting a photo of tree taken in Yeoor Jungle on 13.06.2010.The leaves >> were very velvety and soft like some tomantosa species.Can you pl. help >> identifying? >> Thanx, >> Shobha >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
