Dalbergia latifolia

Dalbergia latifolia
	Dalbergia latifolia
Systematics
Order :	Fabales (Fabales)
Family :	Legumes (Fabaceae)
Subfamily :	Butterflies (Faboideae)
Tribe :	Dalbergieae
Genre :	Dalbergia ( Dalbergia )
Type :	Dalbergia latifolia
Scientific name
	Dalbergia latifolia
	Roxb.

Dalbergia latifolia , in commercially also known as Indian rosewood , or Indian rosewood and Indian rosewood , is a plant from the genus of dalbergia ( Dalbergia ) within the family of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Dalbergia latifolia grows as a very long-lived tree and reaches heights of up to 40 meters. The trunk diameter can be up to 150 cm, but buttress roots are often formed. It is mostly evergreen.

The alternately imparipinnate and stalked leaves are arranged in a spiral. The slightly leathery and smooth leaflets are short-stalked and broadly ovate to inverted ovate or rounded to elliptical. At the top they are rounded or edged, the edges are whole. There are small sloping stipules.

Generative characteristics

There are panicles formed slightly branched and Multiflora inflorescences. The stalked and whitish-yellow flowers are hermaphrodite butterfly flowers . The short cup is bell-shaped. The ten stamens are fused monadelphic. The elongated upper and constant ovary is stalked with a long stylus .

Flattened, thin and papery, short-stalked, brownish legumes are formed that do not open , they are up to 10 cm long and up to 2.5 cm wide. Up to 4 kidney-shaped, smooth, shiny and flat seeds up to 10 mm in size are formed. The fruits are spread out by the wind .

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 20.

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leaves
Flowers of Dalbergia latifolia

Occurrence

Dalbergia latifolia occurs in tropical Asia, from Nepal to India and in Indonesia . But it was also naturalized in parts of Africa and in Mauritius and Réunion .

Use and protection

The valuable and very hard, fragrant rosewood or rosewood from Dalbergia latifolia is durable and is often used for furniture or musical instruments and other things. The wild trees are protected by the Indian Forest Act . The stands on plantations in Java are affected by the fungal disease Haematonectria haematococca ; In India, trees up to twelve years old are damaged by a species of fungus from the genus Phytophthora .

Individual evidence

↑ D. Jesse Wagstaff: International Poisonous Plants Checklist. CRC Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4200-6252-6 , p. 119.
↑ ^a ^b data sheet at PROTA .
↑ Dalbergia latifolia (PDF). In: Seed Leaflet. No. 90, August 2004, from Københavns Universitet, accessed October 5, 2018.
↑ Dalbergia latifolia in the IUCN 2016-3 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Asian Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Vietnam, August 1996), 1998. Retrieved April 10, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Dalbergia latifolia - collection of images, videos and audio files

Indian rosewood Dalbergia latifolia on forestlegality.org.
Dalbergia latifolia from Useful Tropical Plants, accessed October 5, 2018.

[1] D. Jesse Wagstaff: International Poisonous Plants Checklist. CRC Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4200-6252-6 , p. 119.

[PROTA-2] ta sheet at PROTA .

[3] Dalbergia latifolia (PDF). In: Seed Leaflet. No. 90, August 2004, from Københavns Universitet, accessed October 5, 2018.

[IUCN-4] Dalbergia latifolia in the IUCN 2016-3 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Asian Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Vietnam, August 1996), 1998. Retrieved April 10, 2017.