Biancaea sappan (L.) Tod.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophytes > Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids > Fabales >Fabaceae > Biancaea > B. sappan

Description: It is a small to medium sized, thorny tree, growing up to 10 metres, with conspicuous spines on the stem and leaf rachis. Branchlets are dull, lenticellate, usually armed with paired, recurved stipular prickles. Leaves are large, hairy or glabrate with 9–14 pairs of pinnae. Flowers are golden yellow, arranged in supra-axillary and terminal racemes forming a large panicle. Pods are ellipsoid and brown to black in colour.

Flowering and Fruiting: July - September, extending rarely to November

Uses: Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha, Traditional Chinese medicine

Cultivation: Cultivated.

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org