Scientific Name : Guilandina bonduc L.
Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive
Habit : An extensive climber with branches grey-downy, armed with hooked and straight hard yellow prickles. Leaves : Petiolate, stipulate, stipules a pair of reduced pinnae at the base of the leaf, pinnae 6-8 pairs. Leaflets 6-9 pairs, membranous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, strongly mucronate, glabrous above, more or less puberscent beneath. Inflorescence : Long peduncled terminal and axillary racemes. Flowers : Pedicellate, pedicels brown-downy, bracts squarrose, linear, acute, fulvous-hairy. Calyx fulvous-hairy, lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse. Petals oblanceolate, yellow. Filaments of the stamens declinate, flattened at the base, clothed with long white silky hairs. Fruit : Pods shortly stalked, oblong, densely armed on the faces with wiry prickles. Seeds 1-2, oblong, lead-coloured. Flowering and Fruiting Time : March - October. Significance : Found in wastelands.
Specimen Information
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Common Name(s):
सागरगोटी, Bonduc nut
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Synonym(s):
Caesalpinia bonduc (L.) Roxb. Guilandina aculeata Salisb.
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Family:
Caesalpiniaceae
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