Albizia odoratissima (L.f.)Benth.

Bark with irregular cracks and dark patches. Dark green foliage.

Deciduous trees; to 30 m high; bark 10-15 mm thick, surface greyish-brown to dark brown, rough, irregularly cracked; blaze reddish-pink; branchlets blackish to brown, terete, 2-6 mm thick, initially tawny pubescent, finally glabrous. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral, caducous; rachis 20-30 cm long, stout, grooved above, spulvinate, brown pubescent, with a gland at the base, pinnae 2-8 pairs, opposite, even pinnate, 5-13 cm long, slender, puberulent, glands between the junctions of 1-2 distal pairs of pinnae; leaflets 14-40, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, sessile; lamina 1.8-2.5 x 0.5-1.2 cm, oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse and apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib subcentral to submarginal, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, in globose heads forming terminal panicles; peduncle, slender, puberulous; calyx tube cupular, 1-1.5 x 1-1.3 mm, teeth minute, deltoid, pubescent; corolla broadly funnel shaped, lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent; stamems many, 1.2-2 cm long, monadelphous at base, tube as long as or shorter than the corolla tube; ovary stipitate, glabrous or pilose, style filiform, stigma terminal. Fruit a pod 15-20 x 2.5-3.7 cm, flat, strap-shaped, with parallel margin or often some portion constricted, rounded to rostrate at apex, glabrous, often glossy, reddish-brown to dark brown, finely reticulately veined; seeds 6-12, oblong, orbicular, compressed.

Habit: Tree

Uttar Pradesh, Maharastra, Orissa, West Bengal, Assam, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh.

Maharashtra: Kolhapur