Moringa concanensis - Konkan Moringa

Konkan Moringa is a small tree with thick bark. The tree is hairless except younger parts and inflorescence. Leaves are bipinnate (very rarely tripinnate), 45 cm long. Primary pairs are 5-6, distant, 10-20 cm long. Leaflets are 4-6 pairs with an odd one, broadly elliptic to round, blunt at both ends, often notched at the tip, 2.5-3.8 cm long, 1.25-2.5 cm broad, pale beneath. Flowers are borne in lax velvety panicles up to 45 cm long. Flowers are small, yellowish, with red or pink veins. Sepals are 5, minutely velvety, oblong, white, reflexed, 8.5-12.5 mm long. Petals are oblong or oblong-spoon-shaped, the lower 9 mm long. Perfect stamens are 5, alternating with 4-5 much smaller staminodes. Fruit is a pod which is linear, 30-45 cm long, sharply 3-angled. Konkan Moringa is found in tropical dry forest from southeastern Pakistan almost to the southern tip of India. Flowering: October-March.