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Botanical Name: Senegalia caesia
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Family: Mimosaceae
Common Name: ***
Etymology - Genus: *
Etymology - Species: Light blue. For 17th century Italian botanist Federico Cesi.
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Mulshi
Description: (ID TBC) Deciduous straggler or climbing shrub with angled/grooved bark.Bipinnately compound leaf with 5-10 pinnae. Lenticel observed on petiole and on uppermost pinnae. Grooved rachis with hooked spines observed on underside. Leaflets are in 18-35 pairs.Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets.Small white heads are observed at the end of the branch arranged in raceme.Brown, glabrous, flat, violet/brown colour pods.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Straggler
Stem Cross Section: Angled
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Root-Stem-Bark Description: (ID TBC) Deciduous straggler or climbing shrub with angled/grooved bark.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Exstipulate
Leaf Type: Bipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate-Spiral
Leaf Description: Bipinnately compound leaf with 5-10 pinnae. Lenticel observed on petiole and on uppermost pinnae. Grooved rachis with hooked spines observed on underside. Leaflets are in 18-35 pairs.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Rounded-Base
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Rounded apice
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
Bract: Inconspicuous
Inflorescence Description: Small white heads are observed at the end of the branch arranged in raceme.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
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Androecium Length of filament: equal
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Androecium Number of Stamens: Many
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Brown, glabrous, flat, violet/brown colour pods.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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