Thottea dalzellii

Thottea dalzellii (Hook.f.) Karthik. & Moorthy, Fl. Pl. India 156 2009. (Syn: Apama dalzellii (Hook.f.) Kuntze; Bragantia dalzellii Hook.f.);

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Bragantia dalzellii Hook.f.; shrubby, stout, leaves very large oblong- lanceolate acuminate finely puberulous beneath, capsules 5-8 in.. long torulose, seeds 1/8 in. long 3-gonous rugose and deeply pitted.
The CONCAN ? Herb. N. A. Dalzell.
A very fine species with leaves a foot long by 3 in. broad, and very long pods and large seeds. From the remains of the inflorescence its branches do not appear to have been spicate. Seeds lemon-yellow.
(From The Flora of British India (1886) from IBIS Flora)

  
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Family: Aristolochiaceae
Date: 21st March 2015
Place: Aralam WLS, Kerala
Habit: Shrub
As I understand it, T. sivarajanii has 5 nerves arising from the base and T. siliquosa has 3.
Thanks ... for posting a very rare and little known Thottea, last seen by N A Dalzell from a imprecise locality in 1876. This is called Thottea dalzellii (Hook.f.) Karthik. & Moorthy. This is very much different from T. sivarajanii
Thank you very much ... Please provide a key to distinguish:
..............Thottea siliquosa
..............Thottea sivarajanii
..............Thottea dalzellii
 
Rediscovery of Thottea dalzellii6 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (1)- 927_IJAR-5355.pdf.
Kindly see the attached paper on the Rediscovery of Thottea dalzellii (Hook.f.) Karthik. & Moorthy from the Western Ghats after 6 decades. 
Congrats, ..., for this wonderful discovery. 
Congratulations ... to you and your team members for rediscovering the species.
 


 

References:

The Plant List Ver.1.1 (unresolved)  IBIS Flora
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