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Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth)Santapau & Wagh

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Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth)Santapau & Wagh
Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth)Santapau & Wagh
Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth)Santapau & Wagh
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🗒 Synonyms
synonymCaesalpinia lacerans Roxb.
synonymCaesalpinia ligulata DC.
synonymCantuffa hexapetala (Roth)Kuntze
synonymCantuffa lacerans (Roxb.)Taub.
synonymPterolobium hexapetallum (Roth)Santapau & Wagh
synonymPterolobium indicum A.Rich.
synonymPterolobium lacerans Auct. non R.Br.
synonymReichardia hexapetala Roth
🗒 Common Names
Irula
  • Kokkichedi
  • Vaelipparuthi
Malayalam
  • Endam
Other
  • Bhoca
  • Indian Redwing
Tamil
  • Karu indu
  • Karu Indu
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Brief
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Climber
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
Contributors 
D. Narasimhan
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    Diagnostic Keys
    Description
    Habit: An armed, extensive straggler, to 10m.
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      Stragglers; prickles 2 mm, recurved, branchlets puberulus. Leaves to 15 cm, pinnae 4-7 pairs; leaflets 6-10 pairs, 1.2 x 0.7 cm, oblong, obovate, apex rounded, base oblique, pubescent, pinnae rachis ends in a bristle; petiole to 3 cm. Racemes axillary or terminal, to 15 cm; peduncles to 5 cm; flowers white; pedicel 1-1.5 cm; bracts subulate; sepals 4 and 6 mm, hooded; petals 6 x 2 mm, obovate, clawed, subequal; stamens 10, filaments 5-6 mm, basally villous; ovary sessile. Pod 4.5 x 1.5 cm, samaroid, flat, apically winged, reddish when young; seed 1, 10 x 5 mm.
      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
      Contributors 
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        📚 Natural History
        Cyclicity
        Flowering and fruiting: March-August
        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
        Contributors 
        Status UNDER_CREATION
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          Morphology
          Flower

          In axillary and/or terminal racemes; white, buds reddish. Flowering from April-July.

          Fruit

          An oblong, samaroid pod; dark green above with reddish wing, indehiscent; seed solitary, obovoid. Fruiting throughout the year.

          Field tips

          Branchlets stellate tomentose, with strong, recurved thorns. Pods winged apically.

          Leaf Arrangement

          Alternate-spiral

          Leaf Type

          Bipinnate

          Leaf Shape

          Oblong-oblanceolate

          Leaf Apex

          Obtuse

          Leaf Base

          Cuneate-truncate

          Leaf Margin

          Entire

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            Field Tips

            A thorny straggling shrub with reddish winged pod.

            Flower

            In axillary or terminal racemes, white. Flowering from April-July.

            Fruit

            A pod, samaroid, oblong, apically winged, dark green with a reddish terminal wing above. Seed 1, obovoid. Fruiting from August onwards.

            Leaf Apices

            Obtuse

            Leaf arrangement

            Alternate distichous

            Leaf Bases

            Cuneate

            Leaf Margins

            Entire

            Leaf Shapes

            Oblong

            Leaf Types

            Bipinnate

            Habit

            An armed straggler.

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              Associations

              Pollinators

              Bees
              Bees
              No Data
              📚 Habitat and Distribution
              General Habitat
              Dry deciduous forests
              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
              Contributors 
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                Locally abundant to dominant in foothills scrub jungles to 1200m on the dry slopes. Ready colonizer on cleared land. One of the characteristic species of the dry thorn forest of the foothills of the Peninsula.
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                  Description
                  Global Distribution

                  Peninsular India

                  Indian distribution

                  State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Idukki

                  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
                  Contributors 
                  Status UNDER_CREATION
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                    Very common in deciduous forests, scrub jungles, forest paths from foothills to 600m. Peninsular India.
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                      Endemic Distribution
                      Peninsular India
                      Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                      Contributors 
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                        No Data
                        📚 Occurrence
                        No Data
                        📚 Uses and Management
                        Uses

                        System of Medicines Used In

                        Folk medicine
                        Folk medicine
                        The sap from the leaves is used in veterinary medicine.
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                          System Of Medicines Used In

                          Folk medicine

                          FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=5884
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                            Honey harvested after the flowers bloom is the sweetest. Bees have been observed foraging twice a day on the same flowers. Cattle feed on the tender shoots. One can get entangled in thickets of this plant because of its spines. The jungle cat, 'Bhoca' (Ir) similarly never lets go of its prey.
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                              Folklore
                              Indigenous Information: Cattle feed on the tender shoots. Honey bees forage on the flowers and the honey is very fragrant.
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                                📚 Information Listing
                                References
                                1. Pterolobium indicum A. Rich., Fl. Abyss. 1: 247.1847; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:259.1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 395(280). 1919.
                                2. Pterolobium lacerans Wall. ex Wight & Arn., Prodr. 283. 1834.
                                3. Reichardia hexapetala Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 210. 1821.
                                4. Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth) Sant. & Wagh, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 108. 1964; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 183. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 34. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 115. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 108. 2002.
                                1. 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=5884
                                Information Listing > References
                                1. Pterolobium indicum A. Rich., Fl. Abyss. 1: 247.1847; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:259.1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 395(280). 1919.
                                2. Pterolobium lacerans Wall. ex Wight & Arn., Prodr. 283. 1834.
                                3. Reichardia hexapetala Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 210. 1821.
                                4. Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth) Sant. & Wagh, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 108. 1964; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 183. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 34. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 115. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 108. 2002.
                                5. 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=5884

                                CEPF Western Ghats Special Series : Validation and documentation of rare endemic and threatened (RET) plants from Nilgiri, Kanuvai and Madukkarai forests of southern Western Ghats, India

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                                📚 Meta data
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                                🐾 Taxonomy
                                RootRoot
                                KingdomPlantae
                                PhylumTracheophyta
                                ClassEquisetopsida C. Agardh
                                OrderFabales
                                FamilyFabaceae
                                GenusPterolobium
                                SpeciesPterolobium hexapetalum (Roth) Santapau & Wagh
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