Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
Dichrostachys cinerea Sensu R.Vig.
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📚 Overview
Description
Small thorny trees; to 6 m high spines axillary, straight, often leaf bearing; bark grey or brownish, with vertical fissures, peeling off in thin flake; branchlets densely pubescent, spine-tipped. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipules 2, minute, lateral; rachis 30-65 mm, slender, pulvinate, pubescent; pinnae 5-15 pairs, 1.5-2 cm, opposite, even pinnate, slender, pulvinate, pubescent, with a gland between each pairs; leaflets 24-50, opposite, sessile, estipellate; lamina 0.2-0.3 x 0.1 cm, oblong, base obtuse, apex acute, margin entire, ciliate, tomentose, chartaceous; nerves obscure. Flowers polygamous, 2 mm across, in solitary or axillary paired spikes; upper flowers bisexual, yellow; lower ones neutar, pink or purple; bracts oblong; calyx tube campanulate, lobes 5; petals 5, lanceolate connate below, pubescent, valvate; stamens 10, free, exserted, anthers ending in stalked glands; ovary 0.5 mm, subssessile, pubescent; style 3 mm; stigma terminal, truncate. Fruit a pod, linear, flat, coiled, continuous within, indehiscent or opening from apex; seeds 4-6, ovoid, compressed.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Habit: A small thorny tree, upto 6m.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Flower
In solitary or paired spikes; bicoloured, upper flowers fertile, yellow, lower ones sterile, pink. Flowering April-July.
Fruit
A flat, linear pod, coiled, indehiscent, opening from apex; seeds 4-6, ovoid, compressed. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Bark grey or light brown. Rachis with stipitate glands, opposite to pinnae.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate-spiral
Leaf Type
Bipinnate
Leaf Shape
Elliptic
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Obtuse
Leaf Margin
Entire
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Description
Global Distribution
India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kasaragode, Idukki, Palakkad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Found in scrub jungles from plains to 300m. Common. India and Sri Lanka.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn., Prodr. 271. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 288. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 419(297). 1919; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 149. 1985; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 187. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 64. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 122. 1999.
- Mimosa cinera L., Sp. Pl. 520. 1753, non L. 517. 1753.
Information Listing > References
- Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn., Prodr. 271. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 288. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 419(297). 1919; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 149. 1985; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 187. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 64. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 122. 1999.
- Mimosa cinera L., Sp. Pl. 520. 1753, non L. 517. 1753.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Alantsilodendron |
Species | Alantsilodendron pilosum Villiers |
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