Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: A large deciduous tree, upto 18m.
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Deciduous trees, to 30 m high, bark 10-15 mm, surface grey or greyish-black, rough, deeply vertically cracked, exfoliations small, irregular, fibrous; blaze pink; exudation blood-red. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; stipules small, lateral, cauducous; rachis 6.5-11.1 cm long, slender, pulvinate, glabrous; leaflets 5-7, alternate, estipulate; petiolule 6-10 mm, slender, glabrous; lamina 3.5-12.5 x 2-7 cm, elliptic-oblong, oblong-ovate or oblong, base obtuse or acute, apex obtuse and emarginate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 9-20 pairs, parallel, prominent, ascending, secondary laterals prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in terminal and axillary panicles; 10-12 mm long; bracts small, dioecious; bracteoles 2, cauducous; calyx tube campanulate, lobes short, the upper 2 often connate; corolla exserted; petals 5, all long-clawed, crisped along the margins; standard orbicular, wings oblique, obovate, auricled; keel petals oblique, small, slightly connate; stamens 10, monadelphous; filaments subequal; anthers uniform; ovary shortly stalked, inferior, tomentose, 1-celled, ovules 2; style filiform, in curved, beardless; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod, 2.5-5 cm across, orbicular-reniform, broadly winged; seed one, subreniform.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Habit: Large tree
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Flower
In terminal panicles; golden yellow, very showy. Flowering from June-August.
Fruit
An orbicular, broadly winged pod, compressed, indehiscent; seed solitary. Fruiting from July-March.
Field tips
Bark thick, grey, with vertical cracks. Cut end exudes a red sap.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate-spiral
Leaf Type
Imparipinnate
Leaf Shape
Elliptic-oblong
Leaf Apex
Emarginate
Leaf Base
Cuneate-truncate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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Miscellaneous Details
Timber highly valued. The resin is used in medicines and in European wines
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Notes: Plains to Mid Altitude, Dry Deciduous Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Common on hill slopes even in dry and fully exposed areas above 750-1400m.Peninsular India.
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Description
Global Distribution
India and Sri Lanka
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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Found in fully exposed deciduous forests from 250-1400m. Common. Peninsular India and Sri Lanka.
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Maharashtra: Common throughout
Karnataka: Belgaum, Coorg, Dharwar, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, S. Kanara
Kerala: All districts
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Kancheepuram, Kanniyakumari, Madurai, Nilgiri, Salem, Theni, Tiruchchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tiruvannamalai, Viluppuram, Virudhunagar
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Homoeopathy
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Sowa-Rigpa
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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The resin is applied in the fore heads it is believed to drive away evil spirits. Menstruating women should not apply it. The bark is used while bathing infants to cure them of their 'twisted limbs'. If the limbs was twisted that means that the mother was deceived by her lover. The wood is used to construct houses and make furniture. There is a belief that a person who constructs a house using this wood and takes non vegetarian food it will bring misfortune to them.
Wood very hard, used for building, furniture and agricultural purposes. Red kino" resin extracted from the trunk
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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Homoeopathy, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1763
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 116. 1799; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 239. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 385(271). 1918; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 154. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 132. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 152. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 135. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 168. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 232. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 156. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 10,17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 149. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 99. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 187. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 112. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 102. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 98. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 217. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 188. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 235. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 301. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B.D, 1984, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P.& Prasanna P. V, 2000
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1763
Information Listing > References
- Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 116. 1799; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 239. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 385(271). 1918; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 154. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 132. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 152. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 135. 1989; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 168. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 232. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 156. 1994; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 10,17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 149. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 99. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 187. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 112. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 102. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 98. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 217. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 188. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 235. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 301. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B.D, 1984, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P.& Prasanna P. V, 2000
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1763
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Pterocarpus |
| Species | Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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