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Family: Fabaceae; Pterocarpus santalinus

  • Local names: (Telugu) Erra chandanm and Rakta chandanam; (English) Red Sanders
  • Photographed at Velugonda Hills of the Eastern Ghats. Found in rock crevices of the hilly area.
  • Distribution: Found only in a limited area. Endemic to southern parts of Eastern Ghats of Peninsular India.
  • Moderate sized tree. Bark blackish-brown,deeply cleft in to rectangular plates, wood extremely hard, reddish black. Leaves alternate, 1-3 foliate,coriaceous,leaf-lets ovate-orbicular.
  • Flowers: yellow in terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx short, companulate, sub connate, curved; Corolla 5, standard orbicular, crisped, wings oblique, keels small and oblique; stamens 10, in two bundles of 5 each, ovary sessile, 2-6 ovuled; Pod with a broad wing, compressed, orbicular.
  • This plant is on the IUCM Red List, as an endangered plant by BSI and IUCN; As the wood is highily valuable the plants are decreased in number in wild. Included in Appendix II of CITES . Trade of wood, logs, powder and extracts is a punishable crime.
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Author Lalithamba from India

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by lalithamba at https://www.flickr.com/photos/45835639@N04/4665047699. It was reviewed on 18 May 2013 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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