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Sahyadri Thorn
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Sahyadri Thorn
ative Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Sahyadri Thorn, Hooded-flowered brasiletto • Assamese: বাঘাচোৰা baghasora, বাঘ-আঁচোৰা bagh-anchora • Bengali: বগাছেঁড়া কাঁটা bagachera kanta, বাঘাসোরা baghasora, বাকশিকাঁড়া bakshikandra, বিষখোপরা biskhopra, নাটাকুলা natakula, নিয়াঙ্খুপঝু nyankhupajhu • Garo: jakshil, mengojakskel • Kannada: ಮಟ್ಟ ಸೀಗೆ matta seege, ಮುಳ್ಳೋಡು ಬಳ್ಳಿ mullodu balli • Konkani: वाकेरी vakeri • Lepcha: neangkupzhu • Malayalam: കാക്കക്കലിംഗിവള്ളി kakakalingivalli • Marathi: रागी ragi • Mizo: ling-khang • Nepali: बोक्सि काँड़ा boksi kanra • Odia: ନିତେ nite • Tamil: இண்டு indu, மாட்டிச்சீங்கை matticcingai • Telugu: గబ్బుసీకాయ gabbusikaya Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Mezoneuron cucullatum    Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Synonyms: Caesalpinia cucullata, Caesalpinia monosperma

Sahyadri Thorn is a large climbing shrub, with branches carrying curved prickles on corky tubercles (small knoblike structures). Leaves are 2-pinnate - rachis to 30 cm long, pinnae 2-5. Flowers fragrant, in terminal and axillary racemes 20-40cm. Yellow flowers appear like hoods with long stamens with red anthers, coming out. The species name cucullatum means hooded. Sahyadri Thorn is found a bit rarely in evergreen forests at higher elevations of the Sahyadri hills. It is much more abundant in Eastern Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, Burma, SE Asia, W. China, Malaysia, at altitudes of 150-1800 m.

>Identification credit: Prashant Awale Photographed in Maharashtra

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