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Indian rosewood

Habit Shrubs or trees, to 4(–6) m; stems sometimes scandent. Trees, to 25 m. Leaves 3 or 5-foliolate, 15 cm; stipules lanceolate, 4 × 1 mm, apex acuminate; petiole (2–)3–6 cm, usually densely pilose or villous, sometimes glabrate; rachis flexuous; petiolules 2–6 mm, usually densely pilose or villous, sometimes glabrate; leaflet blades ovate, 20–65 × 20–65 mm, base rounded, apex abruptly acuminate or cuspidate, surfaces lustrous with age, puberulent or glabrous.
Leaves

unifoliolate;

stipules lanceolate, 10 × 2 mm, apex acuminate;

petiole 0.4–0.6 cm, puberulent to sericeous;

petiolules 3–5 mm, puberulent;

leaflet blades elliptic to ovate, (25–)50–80 × (20–)50–80 mm, base rounded to subcordate, apex abruptly narrowed to obtuse tip, surfaces sometimes discolorous, sublustrous, subsericeous, becoming moderately appressed-pubescent or glabrous.

Inflorescences

racemose in fascicles, axes pilose;

bracts caducous, blade deltate, 1 × 0.5 mm, apex acute;

bracteoles subpersistent, blade deltate-ovate, 1 × 0.3–0.5 mm, apex acute.

subcymose or paniculate, axes puberulent;

bracts caducous, blade obovate, 2 × 0.5–1 mm, apex truncate or obtuse;

bracteoles caducous, blade elliptic, 2 × 1 mm, apex subacute.

Pedicels

1–1.5 mm.

0.2–0.7 mm.

Flowers

calyx 3–3.5 mm, base rounded, pilose or subsericeous, lobes subequal, barely distinct from tube, deltate;

corolla usually white, sometimes pinkish, 8–9 mm;

stamens 10, monadelphous or diadelphous (5 + 5);

filaments nearly equal;

pistil glabrous.

calyx 3–5 mm, base rounded, puberulent, abaxial lobe usually 2 mm longer than lateral lobes, adaxial lobes rounded, connate nearly to apex;

corolla creamy white to yellowish, 8–10 mm;

stamens 9, monadelphous;

filaments alternately long and short;

pistil puberulent.

Legumes

stalk 3 mm;

subglobose to subreniform, 20–35 × 15–20 mm, base rounded, apex rounded, surface sericeous becoming appressed-pubescent or glabrescent.

stalk 5–6 mm; narrowly ellipsoid to oblong, 40–100 × 6–15 mm, base attenuate to cuneate, apex acute to rounded, surface sublustrous to reticulate, glabrous.

Seed(s)

1.

1 or 2(–4).

2n

= 20.

= 20.

Dalbergia ecastaphyllum

Dalbergia sissoo

Phenology Flowering Apr–Aug. Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat Hammocks, coastal thickets, wooded dunes, swamps, shores, margins of mangroves. widely cultivated worldwide in tropical areas..
Elevation 0–10 m. (0–0 ft.) 0–50 m. (0–200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Africa
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from FNA
FL; Asia; widely cultivated worldwide in tropical areas [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Dalbergia sissoo is a cultivated timber tree in India, where it is used for cabinetry, furniture, carvings, and musical instruments (M. Chudnoff 1984). In southern Florida, it is grown as an ornamental and has escaped; it is listed as a Category II invasive species by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (www.fleppc.org).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalbergia Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalbergia
Sibling taxa
D. brownei, D. sissoo
D. brownei, D. ecastaphyllum
Synonyms Hedysarum ecastaphyllum, Ecastaphyllum brownei, Pterocarpus ecastaphyllum
Name authority (Linnaeus) Taubert in H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 101–102[III,3]: 335. (1894) — (as ecastophyllum) Roxburgh ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 416. (1825)
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