Botanical name: Dalbergia coromandeliana    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)

Coromandel Rosewood is an erect, spiny shrub with bifarious, horizontal, rigid branches ending in spines. Leaves are compund, 4-9 cm long, fascicled on tubercles; leaflets 7-11, rarely up to 13, elliptic to wedge-shaped-oblong, 6-9 × 3-8 mm, entire, blunt, hairless; lateral veins indistinct. Leaf axis finely velvet-hairy; leaflet stalks 0.5 mm; stipules small, falling off. Flowers are borne in cyme-like panicles, 2-3.5 cm long, clustered on tubercles. Flowers are white to yellowish, 3-4 mm long, pea-flower-shaped, zygomorphic; vexillum 3-3.5 mm, retuse/notched; wings and keels oblong, clawed. Flower-stalks are 1-2 mm long. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped, 2-3 mm long, 5-toothed, lowest tooth longer. Stamens are 9, sheath 3 mm. Ovary is 2-2.5 mm, stiped. Bracts are lance-shaped; bracteoles 2, ovate. Pod is ovate-oblong, 1.7-3.8 × 1.4-1.5 cm, membranous, 1-seeded; seed kidney-shaped, 1.2-1 × 0.5-0.7 cm. Coromandel Rosewood is found in South India and Myanmar. Flowering: April-July.

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