Dolichandrone arcuata (Wight) Clarke, Fl. Brit. India 4: 380 1884. (Syn: Spathodea arcuata Wight);
South India (as per WCSP) Medium sized trees; to 15 m high; bark brown, peeling off in thin flakes, blaze dull yellow. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, estipulate; rachis 7-20 cm long, slender, tomentose; leaflets 5-11, opposite; petiolule to 5-30 mm, slender, tomentose; lamina 4-7.5 x 2-4 cm, oblong, ovate, orbicular or elliptic-ovate; base oblique or acute; apex acute or obtuse; margin entire, pubescent, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-6 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent; intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, few in terminal corymbs or panicles; calyx spathaceous, split on one side and recurved to 2.5 cm, pubescent; corolla 4 cm across, tubular, widened at mouth, tube 6 cm, lobes 5, fringed; stamens 4, didydynamous, divaricate, included, filaments 5 and 7 mm long; disc annular; ovary 5 mm, sessile; ovules numerous, style 2 mm; stigma 2 lobed. Fruit a capsule, 2 valved, upto 45 x 1.5 cm, linear, terete, pubescent, speckled with white dots, curved; seeds 0.6 mm, winged. Flowering and fruiting: October Dry deciduous forests Peninsular India (endemic) (Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal )
Dolichandrone atrovirens - Bignoniaceae: 6 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3) photos taken in Melkote, Karnataka of Dolichadrone atrovirens of the Bignoniaceae family. A deciduous tree, upto 16m tall. Pinnate leaves, leaflets velvety and wavy. the Flowers are a beautiful white and are delightfully fragrant.. I doubt the last picture could be Dolichandrone arcuata efi page on Dolichandrone arcuata & Dolichandrone atrovirens it looks Dolichandrone arcuata, the leaf structure and pubescence indicate it as D. arcuata References: The Plant List Ver.1.1 WCSP IPNI FRLHT (herbarium) JSTOR (Specimen) India Biodiversity Portal Kerala plants Plant illustrations An Excursion Flora of Central Tamilnadu, India By K. M. Matthew (details with keys) |
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