Humboldtia decurrens Oliv., Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 24: t. 2368 (1895); . S. India as per POWO; . 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, […]
Category: Humboldtia
Humboldtia unijuga
Humboldtia unijuga Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Or.: 22 (1870) (syn: Batschia unijuga (Bedd.) Kuntze); . S. India as per POWO; . Common name: Bark-Flower Humboldtia . Trees; to 8 m high, branches slender, solid, terete, strigose when young, glabrous and faintly suberose when mature. Leaves bifoliate, alternate; stipule lateral, 5-7 x 2.5 mm narrowly ovate, acute, prominently parallel […]
Humboldtia sanjappae
Humboldtia sanjappae Sasidh. & Sujanapal, Rheedea 17: 21 (2007); . India (Kerala) as per POWO; . Medium sized trees, to 20 m. in height and to 40 cm in diameter, bark greenish brown, smooth, blaze red, branchlets stout, terete, glabrous. Leaves pinnate, to 25 cm long, rachis to 10 cm long, terete glabrous; leaflets 4, rarely […]
Humboldtia bourdillonii
Endangered . Humboldtia bourdillonii Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 73: 200 (1904); . India (Kerala) as per POWO; . Trees, to 15 m high, bark reddish-brown, smooth; branchlets solid, glabrous. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, ovate, acute, prominently veined, glabrous, appendages falcate, rounded, veined, persistent; rachis 10-12 cm long, pulvinate, obcordately winged between […]
Humboldtia vahliana
Humboldtia vahliana Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4: t. 1607 (1850) (syn: Batschia vahliana (Wight) Kuntze); . S. India as per POWO; . Common name: Malabar Humboldtia • Kannada: ಕೊರಟೆ Korate, ನೀರ್ವಾಂಚೆ Neervaanche • Malayalam: Kurappunna, Karappongu, Aattuvanchi, Kurappunna, Korathi • Sanskrit: Jelavedesa • Tamil: Attavanji, நிர்வஂசீ Nirvanchi . Trees, to 18 m high, bark 5-6 mm thick, dark brown mottled with […]
Humboldtia brunonis
Humboldtia brunonis Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 17 (1831) (syn: Humboldtia tripetala B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.); . S. India as per POWO; . hum-bold-TEE-ah — named for Baron Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer … Dave’s Botanarybrun-OH-nis — named for Robert Brown, Scottish botanist … Dave’s Botanary .commonly known as: Brown’s humboldtia • Kannada: ಹಾಸಿಗೆ ಮರ hasige mara, ಕಾಡು ಅಶೋಕ kadu ashoka • Malayalam: കാട്ടശോകം kattasokam . […]
