Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Tree
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Acacia xylocarpa (Roxb.)Willd. |
| synonym | Inga xylocarpa (Roxb.)DC. |
| synonym | Mimosa xylocarpa Roxb. |
| synonym | Xylia dolabriformis Benth. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Deciduous trees; to 20 m high;. bole often fluted; bark 10-15 mm thick, reddish-brown, mottled with white, rough, exfoliations irregular; brittle; blaze yellowish with pink tinge. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipules small, free, lateral, deciduous; rachis 4-18 cm long, stout, glabrous, pulvinate, with an orbicular gland at tip; pinnae 2, opposite, even pinnate 8-30 cm, slender, glabrous; leaflets 4-18, opposite, estipellate, with a gland between each pairs; petiolule 3-5 mm, stout; lamina 5-33.5 x 2.5-6 cm, oblong-acuminate, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, base obtuse or acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; 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.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | 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
| Attributions | 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
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Moist deciduous forests, also in the plains.
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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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Description
Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Maharashtra: Kolhapur, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: All districts
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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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2243
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2243 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- 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
- Xylia dolabriformis sensu Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 186. 1872, non. Benth. 1842; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 286. 1878 p.p.
- Mimosa xylocarpa Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 100. 1798.
- Xylia xylocarpa (Roxb.) Taub., Bot. Centralbl. 47: 395. 1891; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 417(295). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 101. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 168. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 152. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 172. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 153. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 234. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 190. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 73. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 176. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 123. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 11,17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 171. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 245. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 128. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 113. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 206. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 272. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 341. 2009.
- 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=2243
Information Listing > References
- 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
- Xylia dolabriformis sensu Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 186. 1872, non. Benth. 1842; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 286. 1878 p.p.
- Mimosa xylocarpa Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 100. 1798.
- Xylia xylocarpa (Roxb.) Taub., Bot. Centralbl. 47: 395. 1891; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 417(295). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 101. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 168. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 152. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 172. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 153. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 234. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 190. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 73. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 176. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 123. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 11,17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 171. 1996; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 245. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 128. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 113. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 206. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 272. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 341. 2009.
- 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=2243
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Xylia |
| Species | Xylia xylocarpa (Roxb.) Taub. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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