Dolichandrone falcata

Images by Neil Soares, Samir Mehta, Neha Singh, Aarti Khale, Satish Phadke, Prashant Awale, Muthu Karthick, Nawaqif, Pravin and Dev (ID Satish Phadke), Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click links to see details and more images).

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Medhshingi • Hindi: Hawar • Marathi: मेढ़शिंगी Medhshingi, भेड़सींग Bhersing • Tamil: Kadalatti, Kaliyacha, Kattuvarucham • Malayalam: Attulottappala, Nirpponnalyam • Telugu: Chittiniruvoddi, Chittivoddi • Kannada: Godmurki, Muduvudure, Udure • Oriya: Mrigosingo • Sanskrit: Mesasrnga, Visanika;

Dolichandrone falcata [Bersing / Madasinghi]: My photographs taken at Shahapur for comparison.

Dolichandrone sp.: Seen this Small tree in the wild near Gorewada lake, Nagpur.
Family: Bignoniaceae.

Affirmative … This is Bersing / Medhasinghi [Dolichandrone falcata]. Here is the link for my photographs of this:
https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/2a…
Will send some more photographs also.

Some more of my photographs,

The flower opens by 20.00h and abscise by early morning hours. Hence we wouldn’t see flowers on the tree in the day time. But we get flowers from the ground, beneath the tree, in the day.

In a way you are right, but on point of fact, I have seen more flowers on the trees than on the ground even in the late evenings when I am returning to Bombay.
Sending a few of my photographs…. as seen they were all taken in broad daylight.

Not knowing that the flowers open in the evening(?)
Plenty of these are present on the Tekdis near my house. Have seen the flowers during different times of the day but didn’t notice this specifically (May be most of my non weekend visits are in the evening)
Adding some of my pictures.

Dolichandrone falcata: @ Sagar Upvan, Mumbai.
May 2011.

Is this Dolicandrone falcata – flora of Pune:   This tree was photographed at Vetal hill, Pune on 21st Aprl,
Habitat-Wild
Tree height- appx 10 meter
Bark- Blackish-brown, rough.
Leaves- Compund.
Flowers- White.

Yes, for me this looks more like Dolichandrone falcata of Bignoniaceae.

Affirmative. The local names are Bersing / Medasinghi. Please check the archives of this group for my photographs of this.

Yes, there is one in Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, very old, very tall, taller than 60 feet at least…
Mr Benthall lists it as Dolichandrone (please note there is an h after the c) spathacea…

… wonder if that’s a synonym? Although the plant list lists : Spathodea falcata Wall. ex DC. URL:
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-320745

Yes it is Dolichandron falcata;
Medshingi मेडशिंगी
Earlier the leaves appeared tome of the size of ‘Waras’ but they are much smaller than that. Illusion due to close up pictures.
There are many trees on Vetal Tekdi. You have mentioned the size of the tree as 10 m. ??? Most trees I found are smaller say max 6-7m.

Bignoniaceae Week : Dolichandrone falcata : Medhshingi : Khadakvasla : 080113 : AK: Sharing pictures of Medhshingi seen during a visit to Khadakvasla, near Pune.

what an interesting mix of new flowers and old pods

Bignoniaceae Week :: Dolichandrone falcata at Nagpur:: PKA5:: Small tree seen in the wild near Gorewada lake, Nagpur.
Family: Bignoniaceae.
Bot name: Dolichandrone falcata
Date/Time: 16-05-2011 / 07:15AM

For ID 090513GK : 2 images. 4 posts by 4 authors.

I think this might be a Dolichandrone sp. of Bignoniaceae.

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Yes it is Dolichandrone falcata.

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Dolichandrone falcata.
मेडशिंगी

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Tree for ID Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh NAW-OCT-01 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5).

Looks like some Dolichandrone sp, may be falcata.

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Yes it is Dolichandrone falcata only

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Thank you for the identification.
This specimen must be quite old since the Dolichandrone falcata is described as a small tree in the literature.

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Dolichandrone falcata : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (2)

Mhow, Indore, MP. Request for species id : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)

Request for species id
Location: Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
A forest tree.

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Dolichandron falcata

Bignoniaceae

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Dolichandrone falcata : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)

Seeds got from Maagaaniam RF, Kanchipuram district.

First picture is 1 month back. Second is today.

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Bignoniaceae: Dolichandrone falcata Seem.: 2 images.
location/date: (1) between Semadoh and Chikaldara, Melghat Wildlife Sanctuary, Amravati Distr., Maharashtra, November 1994; (2) Tumkur Distr., Karnataka, July 1997

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In April first fortnight Pune Maharashtra; On 13/9/08 in Vanasthalipuram Deer Park, Hyderabad, AP; in Chilkur NP in Hyderabad on 28/6/09; 11th of April, 2010: Near Khadakwasla Dam,on the outskirts of Pune;

Dolichandrone falcata (Medshingi) – indiantreepix | Google Groups

Dolichandrone species? – indiantreepix | Google Groups

Request for ID : 120710 : AK-3 – efloraofindia | Google Groups

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