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Racosperma mangium
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Mimosoideae)
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Citation: Racosperma mangium (Willd.) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 352. 1987.
Acacia mangium Willd., Sp. Pl. 4:1053.1806; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 50. 1992; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 167. 1996; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 631. 1996; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 273. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 341. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Manjium
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Description:
Trees, to 30 m high, bark pale grey-brown to brown, rough, furrowed. Phyllode simple, alternate; stipules lateral, cauducous; petiole 7-10 mm long, stout, pulvinate, glabrous; lamina 16-22 x 3-10 cm, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, base attenuate, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; 3-5-ribbed from the base, palmate, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, in loose axillary spikes of 12 cm long; calyx gamosepalous; corolla gamopetalous, deeply lobed; stamens many; filaments free; ovary superior, puberulous. Fruit a pod, woody, twisting into spiral cluster on dehiscence; seeds brown, 3-5 x 2-3 mm, ovate-oblong, attached to the pod by orange-red folded funicle.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-February
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as avenue tree, also riased in plantations
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Distribution:
Australia
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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
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Kuriachira
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