{"id":1469140,"date":"2022-04-19T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/?p=1469140"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:40:22","slug":"humboldtia-decurrens","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/humboldtia-decurrens\/","title":{"rendered":"Humboldtia decurrens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humboldtia decurrens\u00a0<\/i>Oliv., Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 24: t. 2368 (1895)<\/em>;
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\nS. India<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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\nKerala; Tamil Nadu<\/span> as per ILDIS<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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Trees, to 15 m high,<\/span> 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.<\/span>
\nFlowering and fruiting: January-June<\/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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\n295 ID wild tree Humboldtia<\/a>: 21 images.
\nPlease ID wild tree, easy germination but very rare,
\nLocation: near Reserve Forest, Chathamattom, Ernakulam District, (Kochi) Kerala PIN:686671<\/span>
\nAltitude: 1400fsl<\/span>
\nFlower date: 01.03.2022, 11.30am<\/span>
\nHabitat: wild moisture shady streamside<\/span>
\nPlant habit: tree, erect, branches, hard woody stem, rough bark, long lasting<\/span>
\nHeight: 09 meters<\/span>
\nLeaves: alternate, paripartite, leaflets opposite, oblong, apex, winged branch petiole, size upto:25\u00d78cm<\/span>
\nFlower: pendulous racemose, clustered, 05 petals, diameter: 03 cm, white, good fragrance<\/span>
\nFruit: beans compressed green into brown, size:16\u00d76 cm, 04 mm thickness<\/span>
\nSeed: brown 4-6 nos., circular compressed, diameter: 02 cm, thickness: 2.5 mm<\/span>
\nCamera: CANON EOS1500D<\/p>\n

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Plant habit: 03 way bracts\/wings on young branches’ subdivision<\/span><\/p>\n

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I think it is\u00a0Humboldtia decurrens<\/em> as per\u00a0FoPI<\/a>,\u00a0POWO<\/a>,\u00a0IBP<\/a>,\u00a0Morphology and flowering phenology of Humboldtia decurrens Bedd. Ex Oliver (Fabaceae)<\/a><\/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> India Biodiversity Portal<\/a> \u00a0Wikipedia<\/a> \u00a0Wikimedia Commons<\/a>
\nMorphology and flowering phenology of Humboldtia decurrens Bedd. Ex Oliver (Fabaceae)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Humboldtia decurrens\u00a0Oliv., 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,…<\/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-1469140","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\/1469140","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=1469140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1469140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1469140"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1469140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}