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Family: Caesalpiniaceae	Genus: Bauhinia	Species: Bauhinia vahlii Wight & Arn.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Phanera vahlii (Wight & Arn.) Benth.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Maljan,Malu	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Climbing Bauhinia	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Malghari	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Up To 1300 M	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Climber	Fruit Details	Pods flat, woody, rusty – velvety, seeds 8 – 12, flat, suborbicular, dark brown
Habitat	Abundant Miscellaneous Forests	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Submontane Himalaya, Central And Western India, Nepal, Bhutan	Bark Details	Dark gray or light gray, scaly or smooth
Distribution in chandigarh	Sukhna Choe Reserve Forest & Sukhna Lake	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Oblong
Description of Species	Large woody climbers, to 80 m high, often climbing from one plant to other; branches densely pubescent, ending to into circinate, rusty – tomentose tendrils. Leaves broad as long, cleft deep, glabrous when mature, densely tomentose beneath, base 11 – 15 nerved. Flowers white, in terminal corumbose racemes. Calyx cylindrical,limb splitting into 2 – lobes, rusty – tomentose. Petals ovate. Stamens 3. Pods flat, woody, rusty – velvety, seeds 8 – 12, flat, suborbicular, dark brown	Leaf Details	Leaves broad as long, cleft deep, glabrous when mature, densely tomentose beneath, base 11 – 15 nerved

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