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Botanical Name: Millettia pinnata
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Family: Fabaceae
Common Name: करंज
Etymology - Genus: Named for JA Millett, 18th century French botanist who collected the first specimen
Etymology - Species: Feather-shaped
Ecosystem: Evergreen
Origin: Native
Location: Pune
Description: Medium size tree with whitish, rough bark. Naturally found along river bank.Unipinnate leaf arranged alternately.Uneven no of leaflets are arranged opposite along the rachis.Flowers are arranged in raceme inflorescence.Flowers are white with brown calyx.Flower with Papilionaceous corolla with standard, wings and keel (two front petals, united to form a boat-shaped structure). Diadelphous stamen - 9 stamens together in a bundle and one stamen free.Very hard, flat curved pod with single seed.Seeds is brown, kidney shaped. Seeds germinate very easily.
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Root type: Taproot
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Whitish, rough
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Medium size tree with whitish, rough bark. Naturally found along river bank.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Unipinnate-Imparipinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Unipinnate leaf arranged alternately.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Elliptic
Lamina Bases: Obtuse
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Acute
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Uneven no of leaflets are arranged opposite along the rachis.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Raceme
Bract: Ebracteate
Inflorescence Description: Flowers are arranged in raceme inflorescence.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Vexillary
Flower Description: Flowers are white with brown calyx.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caduous
Calyx Number of sepals:
Corolla Arrangement: Papilionaceous
Corolla Appendages: na
Corolla Number of petals: 5
Perianth Arrangement: na
Perianth Number of tepals: na
Androecium Attachment of anther: Dorsifixed
Androecium Length of filament:
Androecium Union of Stamens: Diadelphous
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels: Monocarpellary
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Flower with Papilionaceous corolla with standard, wings and keel (two front petals, united to form a boat-shaped structure). Diadelphous stamen - 9 stamens together in a bundle and one stamen free.
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Very hard, flat curved pod with single seed.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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Seed Description: Seeds is brown, kidney shaped. Seeds germinate very easily.
