Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Caesalpiniaceae | Genus: Hardwickia | Species: Hardwickia binata Roxb. |
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Fruit |
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| Synonym | Flower Color | Greenish | |
| Common Name | Anjan | Flower Type | Raceme |
| English / Trade Name | Indian Blackwood | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Anjan | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | Up to 1500 m | Fruit Type | Pod |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit a pod, oblong- lanceolate, the seed at the apex where the pod dehisces, the base samaroid; seed pendulous, obovate, compressed, 2-furrowed. |
| Habitat | Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Dry Deciduous Forests. Endemic to Peninsular India | Bark Type | Exfoliating |
| Distribution | Peninsular India. | Bark Details | Bark of saplings almost silvery white and smooth, gradually changing as the tree gets older to dark grey and rough with irregular vertical cracks, thick, exfoliating in narrow flakes. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Compound | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Pinnate | ||
| Description of Species | Deciduous trees, bark darkbrown, rough, with irregular cracks; branchlets slender, drooping. Leaves alternate, 2-foliate; stipules small, lateral, cauducous; rachis slender, swollen at base and at tip, glabrous, estipellate; apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; arcuate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, in lax racemose panicles; bracts minute; bracteoles scale like; calyx tube scarcely any; lobes usually 5, orbicular, petalloid, round the small basal disc, much imbricate; petals 0; stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter. Fruit a pod, oblong-lanceolate, the seed at the apex where the pod dehisces, the base samaroid; seed pendulous, obovate, compressed, 2-furrowed. | Leaf Details | Leaves alternate, 2-foliate; stipules small, lateral, cauducous; rachis slender, swollen at base and at tip, glabrous, estipellate; apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; arcuate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. |
