Tamhini ghat near Pune, MH :: Tree for ID :: ARK2025-076

[Alka Khare]

Hello friends

This tree was seen by the roadside in the Tamhini ghat near Pune, MH in Aug 2025.

Is this Loeseneriella arnottiana?

Requested to please provide ID.

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Alka Khare

[Alka Khare]

One more

[Saroj Kasaju]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://efloraofindia.com/efi/loeseneriella-arnottiana/&ved=2ahUKEwixsou-h6CPAxV9fWwGHRmGJ60Qh-wKegQIGBAD&usg=AOvVaw220LRk7O6-ErxC-hauAbtf

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Saroj Kasaju

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[Alka Khare]

Yes Saroj ji

I had checked this but could not make up my mind if it was L. arnottiana or Reissantia indica.

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Alka Khare

[Saroj Kasaju]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Findiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in%2FFloraPeninsular%2Fplants.php%3Fname%3DReissantia%2520indica&psig=AOvVaw2eDdUK20U5-Ntrb4clIwDB&ust=1756012823850000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBUQjRxqFwoTCOjNnNmXoI8DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[J.M. Garg]

Flora of China gives the following description for Reissantia indica (Willdenow) N. Hallé:

Lianas; branchlets green, early slightly quadrangular, then cylindric, glabrous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, grooved; leaf blade ovate, ovate-elliptic, or rarely lanceolate, 3.5-7(-10) × 2.5-4(-5) cm, papery, base cuneate, distal margin sparsely denticulate, apex subacute; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, slender, reticulate veins horizontally spreading. Cymes 3-5 cm; bracts lanceolate, margin sparingly ciliolate; pedicel 8-10 mm. Flowers green-white; sepals ovate-deltoid, ca. 1 mm, membranous, margin irregularly denticulate; petals oblong-deltoid, ca. 1.5 mm. Stamens longer than style; anthers slightly square. Ovary with 4 ovules per locule; style subtriangular. Fruits 1-3-fascicled capsules; capsule narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3-4 × 1-1.5 cm, apex emarginate. Seeds 2, ca. 2.5 cm, wing apex emarginate.

For Loeseneriella arnottiana, FOI gives the following description:
Leaves are ovate-elliptic, 10 - 18 x 4 - 7.5 cm, pointed at tip, base blunt, leathery, entire or faintly rounded toothed; venation netveined, prominent. Flowers are borne in cymes in leaf-axils, about 8 mm across. Calyx is 5-lobed; sepals triangular, entire, hairless. Petals are 5, round, with narrow claw, hairless, fringed. Fruit is a samara, narrowly oblong, 8 x 2.5 cm, blunt, striped.

Also see descriptions and details at 
https://bsi.gov.in/uploads/documents/Public_Information/publication/books/Flora%20of%20India%20latest/FLORA%20OF%20INDIA%20VOL.5.pdf
https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraPeninsular/herbsheet.php?id=4827&cat=7
https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraPeninsular/herbsheet.php?id=4822&cat=7

Sometimes conflicting descriptions and details.

So best to go by distribution. In Maharashtra, only Reissantia indica (Willdenow) N. Hallé is reported as per above links.

So take it as Reissantia indica (Willdenow) N. Hallé.

Other observations at id of the tree may also be of Reissantia indica (Willdenow) N. Hallé 

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J.M.Garg, 
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[Alka Khare]

Thank you so much Garg ji.

Regards

Alka Khare