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Botanical Name: Terminalia bellirica
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Family: Combretaceae
Common Name: बेहडा
Etymology - Genus: From the Latin terminus (end), referring to the leaves at the end of the shoots
Etymology - Species: Based on its Arabian name
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune
Description: Tree grows into a huge, tall tree with large girth. Branches spread all around casting a nice shadow.Simple leaves with long petiole, terminal - leaves arranged at the end of the branch.New leaves are brownish red and look very attractive till then turn green.Almost sessile flowers are tightly arranged on a peduncle in circular layers. Upper flowers of the spike are male, lower flowers are bisexual.Flowers are small brownish-red with strong odour.Flowers don’t have petals. 10 Stamens are arranged in two rows.Obovoid fruit - Egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base. Leathery skin with very hard seed cover. Takes almost whole year for the seed to mature.Each fruit has a single seed. Cotyledons hidden in the seed.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Ashy, dark
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Tree grows into a huge, tall tree with large girth. Branches spread all around casting a nice shadow.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaves with long petiole, terminal - leaves arranged at the end of the branch.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Ovate
Lamina Bases: Rounded
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Retuse
Lamina Texture: Coriaceous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: New leaves are brownish red and look very attractive till then turn green.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Raceme
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Almost sessile flowers are tightly arranged on a peduncle in circular layers. Upper flowers of the spike are male, lower flowers are bisexual.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Incomplete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Flowers are small brownish-red with strong odour.
Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Actinomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: absent
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 0
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens: Polyandrous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels:
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Flowers don’t have petals. 10 Stamens are arranged in two rows.
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Fruit type: Drupe
Fruit type Description: Obovoid fruit - Egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base. Leathery skin with very hard seed cover. Takes almost whole year for the seed to mature.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Hypogeal
Dispersion Method:
Preprocessing for germination:
Germination time: 15-20 days
Seed shelf life: 1 Year
Germination %: Very easy to germinate
Seed Description: Each fruit has a single seed. Cotyledons hidden in the seed.
