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Botanical Name: Chamaecrista mimosoides
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Family: Caesalpiniaceae
Common Name: चिंचणी, पिवळा लाजाळू
Etymology - Genus: From the Greek chamai (dwarf) and crista (crest - feather like) referring to its leaves
Etymology - Species: *
Ecosystem: Annual
Origin: Native
Location: Malavli
Description: Very delicately small annual herb.Fish bone like leaf with gland on petiole.Paripinnate leaflets, elliptic lamina. Very small leaflets adjacent to each other.Single yellow flower appear in leaf axis.Sepals are almost as long as petals. Longest filament sigmoidally curved, more than 2.5 cm. Stamens arranged in a 3 sets. Style is light green, curved.Elastically coiling pod, to disburse the seeds (characteristic feature)
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Root type: Taproot
Stem Appearance: Herb
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Root-Stem-Bark Description: Very delicately small annual herb.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Unipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Fish bone like leaf with gland on petiole.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Rounded
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Rounded apice
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate leaflets, elliptic lamina. Very small leaflets adjacent to each other.
Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Single Flower
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Valvate
Flower Description: Single yellow flower appear in leaf axis.
Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement: 5 free petals
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Basifixed
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Androecium Union of Stamens: Free stamen arranged in 3 sets
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
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Floral Parts Description: Sepals are almost as long as petals. Longest filament sigmoidally curved, more than 2.5 cm. Stamens arranged in a 3 sets. Style is light green, curved.
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Elastically coiling pod, to disburse the seeds (characteristic feature)
Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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