Small trees or shrubs with branchlets ending in spines.
Leaves compound with alternate leaflets.
Flowers purplish-white.
Fruits flat reniform pods.
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Small trees or shrubs with branchlets ending in spines.
Leaves compound with alternate leaflets.
Flowers purplish-white.
Fruits flat reniform pods.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Habit: Small trees or shrubs up to 3-6 m tall; branchlets ending in spines.
Leaves: Leaves compound, crowded at nodes of spinous branchlets; 6-9 cm long; leaflets 5-11, alternate, elliptic ovate, apex obtuse or emarginate, base cuneate. Stipules small, falling early.
Inflorescences or flowers: Inflorescence axillary racemes. Flowers small, purplish-white, zygomorphic, bisexual; calyx 5 campanulate; corolla papilionaceous, petals 5; stamens 10, monadelphous, anthers minute; ovary free, style incurved, stigma capitate.
Fruits: Fruits pod, brownish, flat, falcate.
Seeds /seedling: One seed.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Common in intertidal mangrove forests along the coasts.
Epigeal germination.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
India, Bangladesh, Burma and Malaysia.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Wood is used for furniture and ordnance.
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
not Evaluated
Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
Contributors | |
Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Dalbergia |
Species | Dalbergia spinosa Roxb. |