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Twisted Rosewood Creeper
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Twisted Rosewood Creeper
P Native Photo: Nidhan Singh
Common name: Twisted Rosewood Creeper • Chinese: 弯枝黄檀 Wan zhi huang tan • Malayalam: കുളയീട്ടി Kulayeetti
Botanical name: Dalbergia candenatensis    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Dalbergia torta, Cassia candenatensis, Dalbergia monosperma

Twisted Rosewood Creeper is a climbing shrub, climbing by means of divaricate lateral twigs often twisted, hooked at the ends. Leaves are compound, with 5-7 leaflets, 2-4.5 x 1-1.5 cm, elliptic to obovate, base pointed, tip rounded or notched, sparsely adpressed hairy beneath; leaflet-stalks about 2 mm long; axis 2-5 cm long. Flowers are borne in a simple or branched raceme, 1.8-3.7 cm long, in leaf-axils and on lateral short branchlets. Flowers are 5-8 mm long, white. Petals have claws longer than the sepal-cup; standard ovate, slightly eared. Sepal-cup is about 4 mm long; sepals rounded or blunt. Ovary is linear, stiped, 1-2-ovuled. Pods are 2-3 x 1-1.5 cm, sickle-shaped to crescent-shaped, flat, pointed, thick, 1-seeded. Seeds are kidney-shaped, compressed. Twisted Rosewood Creeper is found in South India to SE China, SE Asia to Australia. Flowering: May-August.

Identification credit: Navendu Pāgé Photographed in Ashtamudi, Kerala.

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