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Calliandra
haematocephala Hassk.
Synonym
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Anneslia haematocephala
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Family
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Leguminosae
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Local name
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English- Red Powder Puff
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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Africa, Asia, South and North America.
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as ornamental plant
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Anti-inflammatory,
anticonvulsant, immunomodulatory, and antiulcerogenic.
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Key botanical characters:
Large shrubs to small trees with spreading
branches. Leaves alternate with 1 pair pinnae; leaflets 7-10 pairs, 1.5-5 x
0.5-1.8 cm, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate or subfalcate apex obtuse and
mucronulate, base obliquely rounded to subcordate; petiole 1-2.5 cm; stipules
6.5-10 mm. Flowers in globose heads, peduncle 1-3.5 cm. Calyx white to pink,
1.5-2 mm, striate. Corolla pink with green or white lobes, tube 3.5-5 mm;
lobes 3 mm. Stamens bright red, filaments 3 cm long. Pods linear-lanceolate
9-10 x 1.5 cm; seeds 5 or 6, oblong, flattened 0.8-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 cm.
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