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Dalbergia pinnata var. acaciaefolia
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Dalbergia pinnata (Lour.) Prain. var. acaciaefolia (Dalz.) Thoth., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 25: 170. 1985; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 139. 1992.
Dalbergia acaciaefolia Dalz. in Hook.'s J. Bot. Kew. Gard. Misc. 2:37.1850; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 382(269). 1918.
Dalbergia tamarindifolia Roxb. var. acaciaefolia (Dalz.) Baker in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 235. 1876.
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Description:
Climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate; leaflets very small, many, 1.2-2 x 0.6 cm, linear-oblong, obtuse. Flowers small, white, usually numerous in axillary panicles with corymbose branches; bracts small, subpersistent; bracteoles 2, usually small and deciduous. Calyx campanulate; teeth short, distinct, the lowest usually longest. Petals exserted; all petals with a slender claw, keel petals hastate. Stamens 10, monadelphous; anthers minute, the cells back to back, dehiscing apically. Ovary stalked; ovules few. Style slender, short, beardless; stigma small, capitate. Standard refract. Wings hastate or sagittate at base. Pod samaroid, narrowly ligulate, long-stipitate; seeds 1 or 2, reniform, compressed.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
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:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Brahmagiri
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