Shorea roxburghii

Could this be a species of Shorea. Surely a species belongs to the family Dipterocarpaceae.

Kindly provide other supportive information especially plant height place where you have seen this the habitat where it grow etc….to make things easier.

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Flowers are fragrant.

The altitude is 3000ft above sea level

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This should be Shorea talura Roxb. of Dipterocarpaceae. The local name also suggests. Great find anyway.

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I think I got the local name also wrong. Its called jalari

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/142589/hopes-bloom-fading-jalari-trees.html

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Good photos of Shorea roxburghii syn. Shorea talura.
They are in flowers now i.e. around Shivarathri festival – 20.02.2012.
Tree looks almost leafless, Fresh leaves growing too.
All these forests around Bengalur are filled with the fragrance of these flowers.
Found at Banneraghatta and fruits during the time of the jaatre (temple festival).
Fruits are winged, spin and travel quite some distance in the wind.
They germinate quite easily,
Trees are host for the lac insect.

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Yes this plant is Shorea roxburghii G. Don. of Dipterocarpaceae. Kindly refer my another post for more pictures of this tree.

In Sathyamangalam (closer to Karnataka), the vernacular name is ‘Jalamaram’ or ‘Jal’ and the tribals associate the profuse fragrant flowering to the presence of divine.

Tamil names: Kungiliyam, Thalari, Thaloora, Saambrani

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Shorea roxburghii G. Don.: (12 pictures)

Name: Shorea roxburghii G. Don.

Family: Dipterocarpaceae

Date: 02 March 2009

Location: Sathyamangalam RF, TN

Alt: 1000 m ASL

Tamil names: Saambrani, Kungiliyam, Thalari, Thaloora 

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Nice pictures!

All details are included.

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Very nice pictures … We all are aware of the common Sal tree…..Shorea robusta.
Can you tell us the differences between the two and any further information on this tree.
The Maharashtra flora doesn’t have a mention of this tree but only mentions Shorea robusta as a cultivated species. Any comments….Is the tree mentioned native in TN?

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Shorea roxburgii is a common tree species in Bennarghatte National Park which is close to Bangalore.

Even though it is distributed widely it is treated as endangered by IUCN (http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/33028/0)

Please access a publication on the reproductive ecology of Shorea roxburghii from http://threatenedtaxa.org/ZooPrintJournal/2011/September/o276326ix112061-2070.pdf that would be useful to get more information.

Since the file size is too big I am not trying to attach herewith.

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Thanks for the appreciation …, yes this S.roxburghii is native and common in Southern parts of India. Sorry, I have never seen S.robusta until now and I think S.robusta is not present in TN.

Dear …, thank you for the paper. I found it useful.

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Tree For ID : Bannerghatta,Bangalore : 200413 : AK-1 :  Attachments (6).  6 posts by 4 authors.

A tree in full bloom at Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore on 17/3/13.

I hope the last two pictures with pods are of the same tree.

Had posted a similar tree earlier.

Is it the same Shorea species?

Kindly confirm.

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some kind of Hopea

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Thanks for the clue …

Will wait for further comments.

On searching, my earlier post taken in the same place (not same tree) and identified by … if I remember right, looks more like Shorea robusta, or Sal as in flowersofindia.net.

Hoping to get the id right….this and the earlier one.

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efi pages: Shorea robusta & Shorea roxburghii

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Shorea roxburghii

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Shorea roxburghii G.Don : Attachments (2).  1 post by 1 author.

Shorea roxburghii G.Don (= S.talura Roxb.) Fam: Dipterocarpaceae

10/05/2010, Tree, 800m altitude, hilly slopes, fruiting.

Thirumala hills, Andhra Pradesh

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Tree at Mel Ulvatti for ID- 09022014- PKA-Feb29 : Attachments (7).  4 posts by 3 authors.
Big tree with white coloured flowers was spotted at a village Mel-Ulvatti (Karnataka). Flowers were all at the top and were not accessible. Could manage to take few snaps with zoom. Pics are not very clear… still thought of sharing…

Flower type reminded me of the flower of Hopea ponga..

Date/Time: 28-01-2014 / 10:40AM

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efi page on Hopea ponga

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Shorea roxburghii

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Lovely tree and nice Pix

plant/mar15/6 : 10 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (9)

Thanks for the info. It is also interesting to note so many synonyms of S. roxburghii which is also an endangered plant.

Please check the Biodiversity portal link provided :http://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31783. The details are also reproduced below.
Two characters i.e. leaves velvety hairy on the underside and stigma bifid do not tally with the description provided in the portal.
Trees, to 25 m, bark brownish to greyish-brown, longitudinally fissured, blaze creamy-yellow, fibrous; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate; stipule large, coriaceous; petiole 10-25 mmlong, stout, glabrous, lamina 6-18 x 3.5-9 cm, elliptic, oblong, elliptic-ovate, elliptic-oblong or elliptic lanceolate, base round or subcordate, apex obtuse or emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 12-16 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae scalariform, faint. Flowers bisexual, light pink, 10-13 mm long, in drooping axillary and terminal panicles; pedicels to 5 mm; sepals 5; 3 lobes much enlarged than the other 2, basally connate, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, accrescent, imbricate; petals 5, oblong, densely villous without; stamens 15; filaments to 1 mm; anthers 1.5 mm, linear; connectives appendaged, to 1.5 mm; ovary superior, globose, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style to 4 mm; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, enclosed within accrescent sepals; wings oblong, unequal, 4-7 cm, prominently nerved; seed solitary, obovoid 7 x 4 mm.  

It is my pleasure to share few images of Shorea roxburghii  (Dipterocarpaceae) 

Habit: Tree 

Habitat: Dry deciduous forest 

Sighting: Siddarabetta and Devarayanadurga, Tumkur, Karnataka, about 800 msl 

Date: 29-07-2014 and 23-02-2015 

Leaves resemble Breynia retusa 

May be some Terminalia. Very difficult situation.