Small tree
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📚 Overview
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering: March - May
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
A large deciduous tree, bark pale pinkish grey. Leaves bipinnate, up to 24 cm long, rachis c. 10-40 cm long, petiole c. 5-10 cm long, pinnae opposite, 2-6 pairs, c. 7-12 cm long, leaflets 7-15 pairs, sessile, alternate, obovate, l.5-4.0 cm long, 5-25 mm broad, margins slightly curved backwards, base unequal. Inflorescence axillary and terminal raceme, c. 7.5-15 cm long. Flower pedicellate, pedicel 3.5-4.0 cm long. Calyx 5, gamosepalous, 5 toothed, c. 1 mm long. Corolla pale yellow, c. 2.5-3 mm long, petals united at the base. Stamens 10, free, hardly exserted, anthers with a gland at the tip. Fruit a pod, curved, becomes coiled after dehiscence, 10-22.5 cm long, c.7-10 mm broad. Seeds many, bright red in colour, like beads, c. 7-8 mm wide.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Open areas, roadsides, often cultivated, forest edges
Description
Global Distribution
Native: India, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam Introduced: Angola, Bahamas, Cameroon, Cayman Is., Chad, Cook Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Fiji, Florida, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Hawaii, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nauru, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is., Zaïre
Indian Distribution
Andaman Is., Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharaashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and across the country
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
Global Distribution
India: Andaman & Nicobar Island, Assam, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh; South East China, Malaysia
Indian Distribution
Assam
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Traditional chinese medicine
used in Ayurveda, Siddha, Folk, Chinese medicine
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=56
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=56 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh. http://www.mpbd.info/plants/adenanthera-pavonina.php (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- ENVIS Center on Medicinal Plants. http://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/08bb7796e2813480d18ab48bb2fca7f9/9de7ae203600fb922550fbfea6fbb31e (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317691-2 (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- Flowers of India. https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Bead%20Tree.html (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- Flora of Pakistan. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200011864 (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=56
Information Listing > References
- Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh. http://www.mpbd.info/plants/adenanthera-pavonina.php (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- ENVIS Center on Medicinal Plants. http://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/08bb7796e2813480d18ab48bb2fca7f9/9de7ae203600fb922550fbfea6fbb31e (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317691-2 (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- Flowers of India. https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Bead%20Tree.html (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- Flora of Pakistan. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200011864 (Accessed on 24 April 2018)
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=56
Foliicolous fungi on medicinal plants in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaFloristic diversity of the Indian Cardamom Research Institute campus, Myladumpara, Western Ghats, India
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Adenanthera |
| Species | Adenanthera pavonina L. |
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