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Tamarix gallica var. indica
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Family:
TAMARICACEAE
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Citation: Tamarix gallica var. indica (Willd.) Ehrenb., Linnaea 2: 268. 1827; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 248. 1874.
Tamarix indica Willd., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften 4: 214. 1803; B.V. Shetty and R.P. Pandey in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 25. 1993.
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Description:
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves 0.5-3 mm long, broadly triangular to ovate-lanceolate or triangular-ovate, abruptly acute to acuminate at apex, usually minutely papillose. Racemes aestival or vernal, simple or densely compound, each 3-7.5 (-11) x 0.3-0.4 (-0.5) cm; bracts 1.5-2.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, trullate-lanceolate or trullate-ovate, acuminate at apex, denticulate to subentire, deflexed. Flowers pale pink to pink. Sepals 5, almost free, 0.6-1.1 x 0.5-0.8 mm, equal, ovate, trullate-ovate, broadly ovate or suborbicular, rounded or truncate at apex, upper half incised denticulate. Petals 5, (1.2-) 1.5-2 x 0.8-1.1 mm, obovate, oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, caducous. Stamens exserted; filaments 2.5-3.5 mm long, mesodiscine. Disc 0.5-1 mm across, 5-lobed, lobes notched. Capsules 3-4 x 0.6-1.5 mm; seeds ca 0.6 mm long; coma ca 2.5 mm long.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
South Asia
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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):
Pink
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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:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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