Wonderful pictures Shantanu ji. Have seen one climbing Premna species at Amboli, Mah. last Sep. '10. I think Satish ji 's species is the same as what we had seen. It should be Premna coriacea Clarke as Rajdeo ji as mentioned. This species generally climbs on to huge trees and therefore can be mistaken as a tree!
As per description in Dr. Almeida's flora, Vol IV- Premna coriacea Clarke is an extensive climber; bark smooth, thin, covered with round scattered, corky lenticels; stems and branches glabrous or nearly so. Leaves are coriaceous,10-20 by 8-11 cm, ovate or elliptic, shortly acuminate, entire, glabrous, cordate or rounded at the base; main nerves 4-5 pairs with reticulate venation between them;petioles 2.5 -4 cm long. Flowers numerous, in large finely pubescent terminal paniculate corymbose cymes; pedicels very short; -----Drupe 4mm long, narrowly obovoid, 1 seeded, smooth black when ripe. Posting my pics of what I believe to be of the same species separately. regards, Rashida. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Mahadeswara Swamy <[email protected]>wrote: > Mr. Bhattacharya has mentioned that this is a tree. > > --- On *Fri, 29/10/10, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:52352] A tree from Buxa Tiger Reserve > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "Shantanu > Bhattacharya" <[email protected]>, "Dr. Pankaj Kumar" < > [email protected]>, "TANAY BOSE" <[email protected]>, "rajdeo > singh" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 29 October, 2010, 8:30 PM > > > Resurfacing again for ID confirmation > > Earlier feedback > > Rajdeo ji...........................................It is Premna coriacea, > from family Verbenaceae. > An extensive climber. found in western ghats. > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *Shantanu Bhattacharya* > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > Date: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM > Subject: [efloraofindia:45800] A tree from Buxa Tiger Reserve > To: efloraofindia > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]> > > > > > Hi > during my viisit to the Buxa Tiger Reserve in north Bengal (Jalpiaguri > dist) in June 2010, i found that different birds were attracted towards a > fruiting tree. It was a large tree with small violt berry-like fruits. > I found many species like Spot-winged starlings, Chloropsis, Black-crested > bulbuls, Green pigeons and even insectivorous Lesser Yellownape woodpeckers > relishing the juicy berries of this tree. > I spent a lot of time under that tree to watch and photograph the birds. > Can some give the ID of this tree from the images given below? > (Buxa Tiger Reserve is a moist deciduous forest in the foothills of the > Himalayas covering a large area, and is thought to be the extension of Manas > Reserve of Assam). > > regards > Shantanu : ) > > > > > >
