Xylia xylocarpa

 

Family: FABACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Irul, Irulpool, Irumullu, Kadamaram

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: February-December

Habitat: Moist deciduous forests, also in the plains

Description: Deciduous trees; to 20 m high; bole often fluted; bark 10-15 mm thick, reddish-brown, mottled with white, rough, exfoliations irregular; brittle. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, pinnae 2, opposite, even pinnate 8-30 cm, slender, glabrous, leaflets 4-18, opposite, with a gland between each pairs; 5-33.5 x 2.5-6 cm, oblong-acuminate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, apex acute or acuminate, base obtuse or acute, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; stipules small, free, lateral, deciduous; rachis 4-18 cm long, stout, glabrous, pulvinate, with an orbicular gland at tip; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, sessile, dull yellow, in axillary globose heads; bracteole club shaped. Calyx 4 mm long, tubular, 5-toothed. Petals 5, 1.5 cm long, linear, slightly connate at base, valvate. Stamens 10, free, exserted, filaments slender; anthers tipped with a stalked gland which is early deciduous. Ovary sessile, style filiform; stigma terminal. Fruit a pod 10-15 x 5-6 cm, flat, broadly falcate, woody, compressed, dehiscent, septate between the seeds; seeds 4-10, oblong, compressed, brown, shining.

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