Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd.
ഡിവിഡിവി
| Family: | LEGUMINOSAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Caesalpinioideae | ||||
| English Name: | American Sumac | ||||
| Synonym: | Poiciana coriaria Jacq. | ||||
| Common Name: | Not available | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | September - March | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of the West Indies and Central America | ||||
| Habitat: | Planted as avenue tree | ||||
| Uses: | Red dye yielding, tannin source, firewood | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Trees; branchlets warty. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; stipules minute; rachis, slender, pulvinate; pinnae 8-16 pairs, subopposite , slender, pubescent; leaflets 24-44, sessile, opposite. Flowers bisexual, creamy, in axillary and terminal panicles; calyx tube campanulate, short; petals 5, ovate-orbicular, clawed subequal; stamens 10, declinate; filaments subequal, basally villous; ovary half inferior, stipitate, glabrous; style suberect; stigma capitate. Fruit a pod; twisted. | ||||