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Published In: Der Gesellsschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, neue Schriften 4: 198. 1803. (Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per. March & April.
Type: Type : Madras, November 6, 1799, Rottler (B-not seen)
Distribution: Distribution: Burma, Java, Australia, W. Pakistan and India.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The "Indian Mahagony" tree is cultivated in the plains and the foot-hills up to 1000 m. It yields a reddish timber of good quality used for making furniture, carvings and cigarette boxes. The sweet scented flowers yield a dye and the bark is used in medicine.
Map Location: B-7 Hazara: Abbottabad, Sultanul Abedin 2889 (KUH); Kund, 2660 m, Abdur-Rashid 160 (KUH); C-6 Kohat Dist.: Hangu Rest House, tree, c. 18 m tall, M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 6501 (RAW); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Rawalpindi, Viqar-un-Nisa College, Sadiq Masih, s.n., 26th April, 1960 (RAW); Murree, Rab-Nawaz Khokhar 68 (RAW); Gujar Khan, P. Singh 300 (RAW); C-8 Kashmir: Mirpur, c. 1000 m, Y. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 5442 (RAW) ; Muzaffarabad, c. 660 m. R.R. & I.D. Stewart 17292 (RAW); D-8 Lahore Dist.: Kinnaird College, R.R. Stewart, s.n., 29th March, 1954 (RAW).

 

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Trees, 18-20 m tall. Leaves paripinnate, 30-55 cm long; leaflets lanceo¬late, elliptic-ovate, 2.5-12.5 cm long, 1-4 cm broad, acuminate, margin slightly wavy to entire. Panicles drooping, slightly shorter than the leaves. Flowers creamish, pedicellate; pedicel 1 mm long, puberulous. Clayx lobes obovate, 1 mm long, margin ciliate. Petals 6 mm long, oblong to obovate. Stamens 5-6, free, inserted on the disc; filaments 3-4 mm long; anthers 1.5 mm long, anthers 1.5 mm long oblong, dorsifixed. Disc orange-coloured, 5-6-lobed, pubescent, fused with the ovary. Ovary hairy. Capsule c. 2 cm long, 5-valved, brown when dry. Seeds 1.4 cm long, winged at both ends.
 
 
 
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