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Botanical Name: Bauhinia acuminata
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Family: Caesalpiniaceae
Common Name: सफ़ेद कांचन
Etymology - Genus: Named for Gaspard and Jean Bauhin, 16th century physicians and botanists.
Etymology - Species: Tapering to a long point.
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune, Kokan
Description: Small size tree or shrub, good as a garden plant.Simple leaf, alternate-spiral.Palm size bilobed leaf, very soft texture. Width and length almost same.3 linear epicalyx observed on flower stack.Attractive, radiant white colour flower.Sepals are fused, appearing as single large sepal forming a bud. 5 ovate petals with distinct vein like lines. 10 free stamen arranged in three layers.Flat pods appear on the tree.
Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Shrub
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture:
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Small size tree or shrub, good as a garden plant.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf, alternate-spiral.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Bilobed
Lamina Bases: Cordate
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Emerginate
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Palm size bilobed leaf, very soft texture. Width and length almost same.
Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Single Flower
Bract: Epicalyx
Inflorescence Description: 3 linear epicalyx observed on flower stack.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Vexillary
Flower Description: Attractive, radiant white colour flower.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance:
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement:
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament: Variable length
Androecium Union of Stamens: Free stamens
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels:
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Sepals are fused, appearing as single large sepal forming a bud. 5 ovate petals with distinct vein like lines. 10 free stamen arranged in three layers.
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Flat pods appear on the tree.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
Dispersion Method:
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Seed shelf life:
Germination %: Very easy to germinate
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