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Albizia lathamii
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Mimosoideae)
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Citation: Albizia lathamii Hole, Indian For. Rec. 4: 153. 1913; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 432(306). 1919; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 56. 1992; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 589. 1996; Sajeev & Sasidh., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 22: 629. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 120. 1999.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Natoonjal
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Tamil name(s):
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Description:
Much branched trees; to 7 m high; bark greyish-brown, rough, lenticellate; branchlets brownish or blackish, 2-6 mm thick, terete, initially brownish-puberulous, becomes glabrous, white lenticellate. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral, caducous;rachis 25-50 mm, slender, pulvinate, brownish or greyish pilose, with a gland near the base; pinnae 2-4 pairs, 1.5-5 cm long, opposite, evenly pinnate, slender, pilose, with a gland in between terminal 2 pinnae; leaflets 10-20, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, sessile; lamina 1-1.4 x 0.3-0.8 cm, oblong-obovate, base unequal, apex round or retuse, margin entire, ciliate, tomentellous, glabrous above on maturity and sparsely pilose beneath, chartaceous, midrib more or less central; lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in globose heads arranged in axillary corymbs; calyx campanulate, 4 x 2.5 mm, puberulous, teeth triangular; corolla funnel shaped, lobes 5, ovate-triangular; stamens many, monadelphous at the base, tube shorter than the corolla tube; ovary sessile, oblong, pubescent; style filiform; stigma minute. Fruit a pod 7.5-12 x 1.5-2 cm, strap shaped, flattened, thin walled, straight, often slightly undulate along margins, puberulous, obtuse to rounded and mucronulate at apex, acute at base, slightly bullate along seeds, blackish-brown when dry, very short; seeds ellipsoid.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-April
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Champakkad
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