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Calliandra cynometroides
Synonym
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Inga cynometroides (Bedd.) Baker
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Family
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Leguminosae
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-December
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Distribution
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Southern Western Ghats
(Kerala)
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Distribution in Kerala
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Kollam
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Habitat
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Evergreen forests
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Endemic/Exotic
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Kerala
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Glabrous small trees; to 6 m
high; branches spiny; bark greyish-brown. Leaves alternate, bifoliate,
stipulate; stipule spiny; rachis 18-35 mm long, stout, pulvinate, glabrous,
with a gland at the tip on upper side in between two leaflets and an
appendage on the lower side; leaflets 2, estipellate;
lamina elliptic, elliptic lanceolate or elliptic-oblong,
halves dissimilar, base obliquely attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin
entire, glabrous, coriaceous. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, in axillary solitary
globose heads, 16-18 mm long; calyx 3-lobed; petals 3, greenish-yellow,
connate, valvate; stamens many, long-exserted, monadelphous; anthers minute;
ovary sessile; style filiform; stigma minute. Fruit a pod, pale brown, subsessile, linear, falcate, with a hook at the tip, base
narrowed suture thickened, glabrous; seeds 5-6, orbicular or obovate,
compressed.
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