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Caesalpinia
coriaria (Jacq.) Willd.
Synonym : Poiciana coriaria Jacq.
Family
: Caesalpinioideae
Local Names
: American sumac
Flowering
and fruiting period:
September – March
Distribution: Native of the West
Indies and Central America; now widely introduced in the Asian countries
Habitat: Planted as avenue
tree
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: Red dye yielding,
tannin source, firewood
Key
Characters:
Trees; branchlets warty. Leaves bipinnate, alternate; stipules minute; rachis,
slender, pulvinate; pinnae 8-16 pairs, subopposite , slender, pubescent;
leaflets 24-44, sessile, opposite. Flowers bisexual, creamy, in axillary and
terminal panicles; calyx tube campanulate, short; petals 5, ovate-orbicular,
clawed subequal; stamens 10, declinate; filaments subequal , basally villous;
ovary half inferior, stipitate , glabrous; style suberect; stigma capitate.
Fruit a pod; twisted.
