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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Albizia odoratissima - (L.F.) Benth
Family
Mimosaceae
Common Name
Chinchwa, Siris, Fragrant Albizia
Habit
Tree
Synonym
Acacia odoratissima (L.F.) Willd.
Habitat
Hot, humid regions
Color Of Flower
White
Key Characters
Flowers sessile, leaflets with midrib near upper edge.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Polypetalae
 
Series :
Calyciflorae
 
Order :
Rosales
Plant Description

Tall, erect, unarmed, deciduous tree with grey bark; leaves evenly bipinnate, rachis finely downy with a large, sessile gland near the base and smaller glands between 1-2 upper pairs of pinnae; pinnae 3-4 pairs; pinnules 8-20 pairs; leaflets sessile, obliquely oblong, obtuse, rigidly subcoriaceous, dark green and almost glabrous above, glaucous beneath, mid rib parallel, towards upper edge at a short distance; stipules small, deciduous; heads small, few flowered, white, globose, sessile, forming deltoid, terminal panicles crowded at the end of branches or in leaf axils; bracts subulate; calyx 5-lobed, sessile, minute, campanulate, not pubescent; corolla lobes 5, lanceolate, silky pubescent, stamens many, monadelphous, much exserted; ovary stipitate, elongate, pubescent, style short, filiform, stigma minute; pods subsessile, compressed, flat, thin, straight, ligulate, sutures not thickened, smooth or reticulate above, indehiscent, reddish-brown; seeds 8-12, compressed, yellow.

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