Entada rheedii

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Botanical Name: Entada rheedii

Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 0 Photo Date-Time: 30-Jul-2022 14:56 PM

Photo Description: Sapling planted by Mr Shankar Barve at Village Utamber, near Anjarle, Taluka Dapoli. Not survived.

Family: Mimosaceae

Common Name: गारबी

Etymology - Genus: A Malabar name used by van Rheede for the genus of giant seeds that float across the Atlantic Ocean to wash up on the shores of northwest Europe.

Etymology - Species: After name of Hendrik van Rheede.

Ecosystem: Deciduous

Origin: Native

Location: Phansad forest

Description: Huge woody unarmed liana, spreads massively along and above forest canopy. Girth can become a foot in diameter.Bipinnately compound leaf with 1-2 pinna.Paripinnate leaflets. Main spine of the leaf (rachis) ending in a forked tendril, which holds tightly around the support.Long tail like, yellow, catkin inflorescence with pleasant smell.Pods are huge, can grow up to 5-6 feet long. Each seed is arranged into a segment.Seed is very well protected inside a very hard cover. Various germination stages are documented in a profile picture attached.

Root type: Taproot-Woody hard

Stem Appearance: Liana

Stem Cross Section: Circular

Stem Texture:

Root-Stem-Bark Description: Huge woody unarmed liana, spreads massively along and above forest canopy. Girth can become a foot in diameter.

Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 0 Photo Date-Time: 25-Aug-2018 11:22 AM

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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 0 Photo Date-Time: 29-Jul-2018 08:39 AM

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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 0 Photo Date-Time: 27-Jul-2018 18:12 PM

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Leaf - Characters

Attachment: Petiolate

Stipules: Exstipulate

Leaf Type: Bipinnate-Paripinnate

Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral

Leaf Description: Bipinnately compound leaf with 1-2 pinna.

Leaflet - Characters

Lamina: Elliptic

Lamina Bases: Round

Lamina Margins: Entire

Lamina Apices: Retuse

Lamina Texture: Glabrous

Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate

Leaflet Description: Paripinnate leaflets. Main spine of the leaf (rachis) ending in a forked tendril, which holds tightly around the support.

Inflorescence - Characters

Inflorescence: Catkin

Bract: Inconspicuous

Inflorescence Description: Long tail like, yellow, catkin inflorescence with pleasant smell.

Flower - Characters

Flower Type: Complete

Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic

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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous

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Perianth Arrangement: na

Perianth Number of tepals: na

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Androecium Number of Stamens: Many

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Fruit type: Legume

Fruit type Description: Pods are huge, can grow up to 5-6 feet long. Each seed is arranged into a segment.

Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 0 Photo Date-Time: 30-Jul-2022 14:56 PM

Photo Description: Sapling planted by Mr Shankar Barve at Village Utamber, near Anjarle, Taluka Dapoli. Not survived.