Dear Shobha ji, ... do not have photos of *H. obovatum*, but *H. orixense*at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91314344%40N00&q=Hymenodictyon+orixense&m=text Regards.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:07 PM, shobha chavda <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
