Botanical name: Butea superba    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Rudolphia superba

Palash Lata is large woody climber, climbing from left to right, trunk attaining 60-90 cm in girth, up to 15 m high. Flowers are orange to scarlet, borne in profuse racemes on leafless branches, racemes often 25-30 cm long. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped, teeth lanceshaped, velvety. Flowers much protrude out, standard pointed, recurved; wings adnate to a curved keel. Bark is deep brown. Leaves are 3-foliate; leaflets with stiff short hairs, 32.5-40 x 20-30 cm, base rounded, obovate, the lateral areas asymmetrical, hairy on the nerves beneaty. Leaf-stalks are 15-45 cm long; leaflet-stalk of the lateral leaflets 1.5 cm long, of the end leaflet up to 9 cm. Pod stalked, 12-15cm long, 1-seeded. Palash Lata is found from India to Indo-China.

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