{"id":1468723,"date":"2022-04-14T20:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/?p=1468723"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:40:22","slug":"humboldtia-unijuga","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/humboldtia-unijuga\/","title":{"rendered":"Humboldtia unijuga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humboldtia unijuga\u00a0<\/i>Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Or.: 22 (1870)<\/em> (syn: Batschia unijuga<\/em>\u00a0(Bedd.) Kuntze<\/a>);
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\nS. India<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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\nCommon name:<\/b>\u00a0Bark-Flower Humboldtia
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Trees; to 8 m high,<\/span> 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 veined, connate at base, intrapetiolar, glabrous, appendages absent; rachis 5-8 mm long, stout, glabrous; gland at the top; estipellate; leaflets subsessile, 4-15 x 2-5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate or narrowly ovate, base unequal, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 5-15, pinnate, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve, prominent; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, 1.5-2.5 cm long, crimson, in axillary as well as cauliflorus racemes; sterile bracts present at the base of racemes; peduncle pubescent; pedicel 5-10 mm long, finely brown pubescent; bracts ciliate, pubescent without; bracteoles 2, 4-5 x 1.5-2 mm, ovate, rounded at apex; calyx tube 8 mm long, obconical lined by the disc, lobes 4, pubescent, obovate, rounded at apex; petals 5, 10-15 mm long, obovate, crimson, narrowed at base, veined, glabrous; stamens 5, free, filaments 10 mm long, filiform; anthers versatile; staminodes absent; ovary 5-6 mm long, half inferior, stipitate, obliquely oblong, densely brown pubescent; style 8-10 mm long, filiform, glabrous, 8-10 mm long; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod 5-8 x 2-3 cm, compressed, oblong, deep red, veined; seeds 2-3.<\/span>
\nFlowering and fruiting: December-March<\/span>
\nEvergreen forests<\/span>
\nSouthern Western Ghats<\/span>
\n(Attributions: Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi as per India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>)
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Above one image contributed by Dr. M. Sanjappa<\/p>\n

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References:
\nPOWO<\/a> \u00a0Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0ILDIS<\/a> \u00a0GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of peninsular India<\/a> Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humboldtia unijuga\u00a0Bedd., Icon. Pl. Ind. Or.: 22 (1870) (syn: Batschia unijuga\u00a0(Bedd.) Kuntze); . S. India as per POWO; . Common name:\u00a0Bark-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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8529],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1468723","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-humboldtia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1468723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1468723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1468723"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1468723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}