Botanical name:Tamarix gallica var. indicaFamily:Tamaricaceae (Tamarisk family) Synonyms: Tamarix indica
Indian Tamarisk is a tall hairless shrub or small sized tree, 2-6 m tall
with reddish-brown bark. Leaves are tiny, stalkless, ovate with triangular
base, stem-clasping or eared, pointed, 1-2 mm long, without coherent
margins. Flower recemes are 3-12 cm long, 3-4 mm broad. Rachis is minutely
papillose or entirely hairless. Bract triangular, acuminate, somewhat
irregualrly toothed at the margin, sometimes slightly keeled, 1 mm long.
Flower-stalk is shorter than bract, 0.5 mm long. Sepals are 5, fused at
the base inner somewhat broader than the outer, outer more acute, ovate
to somewhat circular, deeply toothed at the tip, margin somewhat
membranous, 0.75-1 mm long, about 0.5 mm broad. Petals are 5, free,
elliptic or elliptic-obovate, blunt, 1-2 mm long, 0.75-1 mm broad. Stamens
are 5, filaments threadlike. Capsule is about 6 mm long, conical,
triangular. Flowering: January-October.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke
Photographed at Ghodbunder Road, Thane, Maharashtra.
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