TSPDEC2015-24-197:Images of Balanites roxburghii (Zygophyllaceae)

[tsp kumar]

Dear friends,

 

It is my pleasure to share few images of Balanites roxburghii  ( Zygophyllaceae  ) 

 

Habit:Small tree

 

Habitat:Srcub forest

 

Sighting:Tumkur

 

Date:18-11-2014,27-01-2015 and 15-03-2015

 

Thanks and regards

tspkumar

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[tsp kumar]

  Ref:   http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=4230&cat=1

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Kumar ji.

Does it match with the only following keys available:

As per efi thread: 

The Plant List treats B. aegyptiaca and B. roxburghii as two distinct species. It would be interesting to know differences. Some sources treat them synonyms. 

Thanks, ..., for this important issue. Pl. see CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names ... By Umberto Quattrocchi (2012).

More details at Balanites 

Balanites aegyptiaca: Evergreen tree, fluted trunk, slow growing rounded crown; long straight green spines spirally arranged on branches; smooth bark fissured, leaves with two grey-green leaflets; flowers yellow-green in clusters; fruits yellow, date-like; seed very hard, pointed, surrounded by bittersweet flesh; ripe fruit edible, young leaves and tender shoots used as vegetable. Indian names: Akantaka, hanchadi, garacheti, hingot, hingora

B. roxburghii: shrub with stout axillary spines; alternate leaves; small greenish white flowers. Indian names: Dirghakanta, hingoloro, hingaata, hinganbet   

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[tsp kumar]

Dear Gargji,

Yes .The description matches with that of B.roxburghii (B. roxburghii: shrub with stout axillary spines; alternate leaves; small greenish white flowers. Indian names: Dirghakanta, hingoloro, hingaata, hinganbet ).In my opinion B.roxburghii is distinct from B.aegyptiaca.  I have  relied upon the description of B.roxburghii contained in the Digital Flora of Karnataka, Moreover,the uploaded specimen was sighted in exactly the same locality  as that is reported in the DFK

Ref:  http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ernet.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=4230&cat=1 

regards

tspkumar

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Kumar ji.

Most of the links at Balanites talks of only one species.

There is only one link which gives differences between the two i.e. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names ... (I don't know how reliable these are ?)

It is possible that both species are the same.

[J.M. Garg]

Further efloras does not list any Balanites species.

WCSP gives distribution of Balanites roxburghii Planch. only in India, but it does not give any distribution of Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile in India.

In view I am taking all posts so far in efi on Balanites from India as Balanites roxburghii Planch.

[tsp kumar]

That would be fine Gargji.
Thanks

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes there is only one species of Balanites roxburghii Planch. in India. While describing this in FBI Vol. 1, Page 527 A. Bennett wrote "very nearly allied to, and perhaps only a variety of, the B. aegyptiaca of Northern and Tropical Africa". BSI Flora of India, Vol. 4 also records only B. roxburghii differing from African B. aegyptiaca in petals being villous on inner surface, shorter petiolule and ovary not lengthening after flowering.

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Singh ji

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[Mahadeswara]

Thanks  TPS Kumar ji for the upload.  Superb images.

Can you provide the location of this  shrub .  I wish to see the plant when I visit Bangalore.