Humboldtia decurrens

Humboldtia decurrens Oliv., Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 24: t. 2368 (1895);
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S. India as per POWO;
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Kerala; Tamil Nadu as per ILDIS;

Trees, to 15 m high, bark 3-4 mm thick, brown with prominent lenticels, rough; branches dark brown, pubescent when young, glabrous at maturity. Leaves paripinnate alternate; stipules lateral, ovate to narrowly ovate, falcate, acuminate to cuspidate at apex; prominently parallel veined, brown tomentose on both surfaces, appendages reniform with divergent reticulate veins, brown tomentose, adpressed glandular; rachis 15-36 cm long, pulvinate, obcordately or decurrently winged, wings reticulately veined, glabrous; leaflets 8-12, opposite, estipellate; petiolule 3-5 mm long,stout, densely brown tomentose; lamina 15-38 x 4-12 cm, oblong-lanceolate, base obtuse or round, apex long acuminate, margin entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous, sparsely depressed glandular beneath; lateral nerves 10-16 pairs, parallel, ascending, looped at the margin forming prominent intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, pink, 17-18 mm long, in pendulous axillary or cauliflorus racemes, tawny villous; pedicels 1-1.2 cm long, villous; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse to acute at apex, villous and glandular without, black and glabrous within, fugacious; bracteoles 2, connate at base, ovate, obtuse, brown villous on both surfaces; calyx tube upto 1.2 cm long, obconical, lined by the disc, villous; lobes 4, oblong, rounded at apex, imbricate; petals 5, pink or white, 2-2.5 x 0.5 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, clawed, obtuse to round at apex, pilose within at base; stamens 5, 3.5-4 cm long, perfect, alternating with 5 minute staminodes; filaments filiform, broad, pilose at base; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate, obliquely linear, villous, ovules 3-6; style filiform, glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod 7-12 x 2.7-4 cm, oblong, brown, veined, rugulose and dark brown tomentose when young, sutures thick; seeds 2-3, thick, flat, glabrous.
Flowering and fruiting: January-June
Evergreen forests
Southern Western Ghats
(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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295 ID wild tree Humboldtia: 21 images.
Please ID wild tree, easy germination but very rare,
Location: near Reserve Forest, Chathamattom, Ernakulam District, (Kochi) Kerala PIN:686671
Altitude: 1400fsl
Flower date: 01.03.2022, 11.30am
Habitat: wild moisture shady streamside
Plant habit: tree, erect, branches, hard woody stem, rough bark, long lasting
Height: 09 meters
Leaves: alternate, paripartite, leaflets opposite, oblong, apex, winged branch petiole, size upto:25×8cm
Flower: pendulous racemose, clustered, 05 petals, diameter: 03 cm, white, good fragrance
Fruit: beans compressed green into brown, size:16×6 cm, 04 mm thickness
Seed: brown 4-6 nos., circular compressed, diameter: 02 cm, thickness: 2.5 mm
Camera: CANON EOS1500D