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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