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Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.
Synonym
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Dalbergia latifolia var. sissoides
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Family
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Leguminosae
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Local name
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English - East Indian rosewood
Malayalam - Veeti
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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August-September
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
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Distribution
in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
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IUCN Status
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Vulnerable
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Uses
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Tree used to make furniture. The foliage is used as fodder.
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Key botanical characters:
Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, grey,
smooth with short irregular cracks, exfoliating in thin fibrous longitudinal
flakes; blaze yellow, turning to yellow-brown. Leaves imparipinnate, rarely
1-foliate,. Flowers bisexual, white, in short corymbose panicles
from the axils of fallen leaves of previous years shoot; bracteoles small,
deciduous; calyx tube campanulate; lobes 5, subequal, upper 2 connate,
lateral obtuse, lower acute; petals 5, standard petal obovate, cuneate at base,
reflexed, wings clawed, base auricled, keel hastate,
united, clawed; stamens 9, monadelphous; staminal tube split open one
side; ovary stipitate, inferior, glabrous, 1-celled, ovules 1-few;
style slender, incurved, glabrous; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod.
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