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Botanical Name: Phanera vahlii
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Family: Caesalpiniaceae
Common Name: कांचन वेल
Etymology - Genus: *
Etymology - Species: *
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Kanpur, Empress Garden
Description: Huge woody liana, spreads massively along and above forest canopy. Girth can become a foot in diameter. Almost all parts of the plant are covered with very soft hairs.Simple leaf, with opposite tendril. Tendril is forked at the end, and looks like a winding spring and grabs the support tightly. Bilobed leaf, size of two palms touched alongside. Leaf is slightly thickish and pubescent - nice, soft, velvety touch.Flowers occur in corymbose inflorescence, in the leaf axis.Very delicate white flower which fades are it age.Sepals are fused, couple of sepal lobs form a bud. 5 , white petals with irregular shape and slim base. It has 3 stamens and additional 7 staminode. Distinct pink style.Broad, woody, velvety pod.Seeds are coin size.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Liana
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Smooth gray bark
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Huge woody liana, spreads massively along and above forest canopy. Girth can become a foot in diameter. Almost all parts of the plant are covered with very soft hairs.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Tendrillar
Leaf Type: Simple
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Simple leaf, with opposite tendril. Tendril is forked at the end, and looks like a winding spring and grabs the support tightly.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Bilobed
Lamina Bases: Cordate
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Emerginate
Lamina Texture: Pubescent
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Bilobed leaf, size of two palms touched alongside. Leaf is slightly thickish and pubescent - nice, soft, velvety touch.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 28-Nov-2018 09:47 AM
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Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 2 Photo Date-Time: 19-Apr-2019 08:49 AM
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Corymb
Bract: Linear bract
Inflorescence Description: Flowers occur in corymbose inflorescence, in the leaf axis.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Zygomorphic
Thalamus Types:
Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
Aestivation: Imbricate
Flower Description: Very delicate white flower which fades are it age.
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Floral Parts - Characters
Calyx Arrangement: Zygomorphic gamosepalous
Calyx Persistance: Caducous
Calyx Number of sepals: 5
Corolla Arrangement:
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: equal
Androecium Union of Stamens:
Androecium Number of Stamens: 10
Gynoecium Placentation:
Gynoecium Union of Carpels:
Gynoecium Number of Carpels: 1
Floral Parts Description: Sepals are fused, couple of sepal lobs form a bud. 5 , white petals with irregular shape and slim base. It has 3 stamens and additional 7 staminode. Distinct pink style.
Photo Credit: Mandar Joshi Record Count: 1 Photo Date-Time: 24-Aug-2022 15:15 PM
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Broad, woody, velvety pod.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
Dispersion Method:
Preprocessing for germination: Keep seeds in water till they become swollen.
Germination time:
Seed shelf life:
Germination %:
Seed Description: Seeds are coin size.
