Rusty Dalbergia is a large woody climber, running
over the highest trees. Bark is rust-colored. smooth. Branchlets are
alternate, two-faced, winding, short, rigid and erect. Alternately
arranged leaves are compound, 4-6 inches long. Leaflets are generally
three pairs, alternate, stalkless, oblong. Outer leaflets are larger
than the inner ones. Leaf-stalks are round, velvet-hairy. Stipules are
oval, small, covered with dirty-green minute hairs. Flowers are borne
in compound spikes in leaf axils. Flowers are white, shaped like
pea-flowers, with a rather large sepal tube.
Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar
Photographed along Anshi Ghat, Karnataka.
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