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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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Genus
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TAMARINDUS L.
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Sp. P1. 34. 1753.
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Description
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Medium-sized trees of lower elevations. Leaves evenly pinnate, moderate-sized, short-petiolate; stipules minute, caducous; leaflets small, numerous, sessile, paired. Inflorescence short, usually terminal, few-flowered, racemose. Flowers moderately large, attractive; calyx 4-parted, the lobes reflexed above the receptacular base, imbricate in bud; petals very unequal, the 3 uppermost expanded and the 2 lower- most rudimentary; stamens 3, monadelphous; staminodia minute; anthers long i- tudinally dehiscent; ovary stipitate, the stipe adnate to the receptacular tube; style elongate, with a terminal subcapitate stigma. Legume linear-oblong, curved, thick, indehiscent, septate between the obovate-orbicular seeds.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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Native to the Far East but planted and naturalized throughout the world tropics.
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