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Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.)
Willd.
Synonym : Poiciana coriaria Jacq.
Sub 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.
