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Botanical Name: Dichrostachys cinerea
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Family: Mimosaceae
Common Name: दुरंगी बाभूळ
Etymology - Genus: From the Greek; di (two), chroic (colour) and stachys (spike)
Etymology - Species: Ash-coloured
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: KBR Garden Hydrabad. Vetal Hill, Taljai Hill
Description: Medium tree with deeply fissured, black bark.Small size, bipinnately compound leaf with 8-10 pinnae. Single straight conical stipuler spine. Small branches ends up into pointed tips.Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets.Very attractive, bottle brush shaped, bi-coloured inflorescence - half pink, half yellow, appear in leaf node. Rear pink part turns white with time.Flat twisted and coiled pods appear in group.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Deeply fissured, black
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Medium tree with deeply fissured, black bark.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Spiny
Leaf Type: Bipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Small size, bipinnately compound leaf with 8-10 pinnae. Single straight conical stipuler spine. Small branches ends up into pointed tips.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Oblique
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract: Inconspicuous
Inflorescence Description: Very attractive, bottle brush shaped, bi-coloured inflorescence - half pink, half yellow, appear in leaf node. Rear pink part turns white with time.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
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Perianth Number of tepals: na
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Androecium Length of filament: equal
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Androecium Number of Stamens: Many
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Flat twisted and coiled pods appear in group.
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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