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Family: Papilionaceae	Genus: Dalbergia	Species: Dalbergia latifolia Roxb.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Amerimnon latifolium (Roxb.)Kuntze, Dalbergia emarginata Roxb.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Black Rosewood	Flower Type	Corymb
English / Trade Name	Rosewood, Indonesia rosewood, East Indian Rose Wood, Malabar rosewood, Bombay blackwood, East Indian rosewood	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Sitsal, Shisham	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	750-1300m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit a pod, 5-7.5 × 1.5-1.8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, tip obtuse, distinctly marked in the place of seeds, but not wrinkled, indehiscent; seeds 1-4, reniform, brown.
Habitat	Dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains	Bark Type	Exfoliating
Distribution	Throughout India, Nepal, Malaya Peninsula, Indo-China.	Bark Details	Bark 10-15 mm thick, grey, smooth with short irregular cracks, exfoliating in thin fibrous longitudinal flakes; blaze yellow, turning to yellow-brown.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Obovate
Description of Species	Small or medium-sized tree; bark grey coloured. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 5-7, very unequal –sized on the same rachis, suborbicular, 2.5-10 cm long, rounded or emarginate at apex, glabrous, pale beneath; petiolule 6-10 mm long. Flowers white, in numerous lax panicles, 5-10 cm long, axillary and from the leaf-scars; pedicels 3-3.5 mm long. Calyx 3.7-8.7 × 1.8 cm, stipitate, 1-3-rarely 4-seeded, sometimes constricted at the sutures between the seeds.	Leaf Details	Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 5-7, very unequal –sized on the same rachis, suborbicular, 2.5-10 cm long, rounded or emarginate at apex, glabrous, pale beneath; petiolule 6-10 mm long.

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