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Inga cynometroides
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Mimosoideae)
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Citation: Inga cynometroides (Bedd.) Bedd. ex Baker in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 306. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 435(309). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 167. 1984; Sasidh., Higher Plants of Indian Sub-Continent 8: 212. 1998.
Calliandra cynometroides Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 317. 1873; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 62. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 112. 1997.
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Description:
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, petiolule upto 3 mm, estipellate; lamina 4.2-12 x 1.5-5.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, halves dissimilar, base obliquely attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate. 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, 8-12 x 1.5-1.8 cm, 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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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-December
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District(s):
Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Creamy
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Rosemala
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