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Pterocarpus
santalinus L.f.,
Synonym
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Lingoum santalinum
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Family
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Fabaceae
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Local name
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English-Red sandalwood
Malayalam-Rakthachandanam
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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September-January
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Distribution
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Peninsular India
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Distribution in Kerala
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Thrissur, Ernakulam, Palakkad, Malappuram
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Habitat
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Cultivated
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Pterocarpus santalinus is used as an beautifying
agent.Used in traditional herbal medicine as an antipyretic,
anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, tonic, hemorrhage, dysentery, aphrodisiac, anti-hyperglycaemic and
diaphoretic.
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Key botanical
characters :
A small to
medium-sized, deciduous tree upto 11 m tall with a dense, rounded crown; bark
blackish-brown, deeply cut into rectangular plates, yielding a deep red latex
when cut; heartwood extremely hard, dark purple. Leaves usually imparipinnate;
leaflets 3, broadly ovate or orbicular, coriaceous, apex obtuse, slightly
emarginate, undersurface pale and clothed with fine grey hairs. Flowers
yellow, borne a few together in simple or sparingly branched racemes; calyx
teeth minute, deltoid. Fruits 3.8-5 cm in diam including the wing. Seeds 1-2,
reddish-brown, smooth, leathery.
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