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Desmodium oojeinense
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Desmodium oojeinense (Roxb.) Ohashi, Ginkgoana 1: 117. 1973.
Dalbergia oojeinensis Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 220. 1832.
Ougeinia dalbergioides Benth., Miq. Pl. Jungh. 216. 1852; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 161. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 340(240). 1918.
Ougeinia oojeinensis (Roxb.) Hochr., Bull. Soc. Bot. Geneve 13 & 14: 51. 1909; Rao et al., Indian J. For. 11: 338.1988; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 224. 1992.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Malavenga, Nemi, Thodukara
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Chariot tree
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Description:
A small deciduous tree upto 12 m tall with grey or dark brown, deeply cracked bark. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, to 30 cm long(including the petiole); petioles 3.8-5 cm long; stipules 6 mm long, lanceolate, acute; leaflets broadly ovate, 7.5-15 cm long and 3.8-10 cm wide, coriaceous, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath, base cordate, margins shallowly crenate, main nerves 4-8 pairs, petiolules 3 mm long. Flowers white or pink, somewhat fragrant, borne in short-fascicled racemes arising from the nodes of old branches; pedicels 1.2-2 cm long, filiform; bracts c.1.3 mm long, ovate, acuminate; bracteole 1 beneath the calyx, minute; calyx 4-6 mm long, pubescent, teeth short, triangular; corolla 1-1.3 cm long. Fruits(pods) linear-oblong, 5-7.5 cm long, light brown, flat, joints 2-3 times as long as broad, reticulately veined; seeds 2-5.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India and Nepal
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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):
Red
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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:
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IUCN status:
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