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Botanical Name: Albizia amara
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Family: Mimosaceae
Common Name: कृष्ण शिरीष
Etymology - Genus: Named for Filipo del Albizzi, 18th century Florentine nobleman who introduced A. julibrissin into cultivation
Etymology - Species: bitter to the taste
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Vetal Hill, Taljai Hill
Description: Medium size tree, greyish bark with bright line appear running along the stem.Bipinnately compound leaf, arranged alternate-spirally around the stem. Presence of soft hairs and lenticels on leaf stack. Leaves are very similar to Vachellia(बाभूळ) /Senegalia(खैर) genus, specifically to Senegalia ferruginea and can be confused when flowers and pods are absent. Absence of spines is a distinctive feature in that case.Paripinnate leaflets, sessile, oblong. Leaflet close together during night or in heavy rain.Yellow, whitish small head inflorescence.Flower colour is actually the colour of numerous stamen.Pods are brown, linear oblong.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Smooth
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Medium size tree, greyish bark with bright line appear running along the stem.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Bipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Bipinnately compound leaf, arranged alternate-spirally around the stem. Presence of soft hairs and lenticels on leaf stack. Leaves are very similar to Vachellia(बाभूळ) /Senegalia(खैर) genus, specifically to Senegalia ferruginea and can be confused when flowers and pods are absent. Absence of spines is a distinctive feature in that case.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Oblique
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Rounded apice
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate leaflets, sessile, oblong. Leaflet close together during night or in heavy rain.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract:
Inflorescence Description: Yellow, whitish small head inflorescence.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation:
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic polysepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
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Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther:
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Polyandrous
Androecium Number of Stamens: Many
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Floral Parts Description: Flower colour is actually the colour of numerous stamen.
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Pods are brown, linear oblong.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
Dispersion Method: Wind
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