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1. Dolichandrone serrulata (Wall. ex DC.) Seem.wfo-0000782270

J. Bot. 8: 383. 1870; Sprague, Kew Bull. 1919: 306; Chatterjee, Bull. Bot. Soc. Bengal 2: 67. 1948; Santisuk, Thai For. Bull. Bot. 8: 18. 1974; Santisuk & Vidal in Fl. C.L.V. 22: 55. Pl. 8, 1–3. 1985.— Stereospermum serrulata DC., Bibl. Univ. Genéve. 17: 124. 1838; Kurz, Fl. Burm. 2: 230. 1877.— Spathodea serrulata (DC.) DC., Prod. 9: 206. 1845. Plate II: 3.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Deciduous, glabrous tree, 7–20 m high, crown cylindric. Leaves 12–35 cm, 3–4(–5)-jugate; leaflets thin, papery, elliptic, broadly elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 5–10(–14) by 3–5(–7) cm, apex acuminate, acute, strongly oblique at base, usually remotely serrate or obscurely serrate to subentire, undersurface with few, scattered, large glands along midrib; petiolules 5–13 mm long. Racemes 2–3 cm long, 3–7-flowered; pedicels 1.8–3.8 cm long. Calyx bud 3–5 cm long, conical, ± arcuate, beaked. Corolla tube 11–19 cm long, basal tube 6–10 cm long, slightly dilated at base, upper campanulate tube 5–8 cm long. Stamens not exserted. Capsule up to 85 cm long, 1.2–1.8 cm wide, acuminate, twisted; valves leathery; pseudoseptum thick and corky, unevenly undulating, ca 1.2 cm wide. Seeds thin, 2.2–2.8 by 0.5–0.8 cm, including lateral hyaline-membranous winged.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai, Lampang, Phichit, Nakhon Sawan; NORTH-EASTERN: Loei; EASTERN: Chaiyaphum, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Ratchasima; CENTRAL: Saraburi, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok) (cultivated).

Distribution : Burma (type), Laos, Vietnam.

Ecology : In open mixed deciduous forests, frequent in low-lying rice fields in Northern, North-Eastern and Eastern regions.

Vernacular : Khae na (แคนา); khae kettawa (แคเก็ตวา), khae pa (แคป่า)(Northern); khae sai (แคทราย)(Northeastern).