Axlewood
Anogeissus acuminata
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Axlewood
Identify Axlewood by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Confirm leaf shape: Lanceolate.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Anogeissus acuminata
- Genus
- Anogeissus
- Family
- Combretaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
- Found in India
- Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- LanceolaterecordedLong and narrow, tapering to a point, like a lance head.“The petioles are cylindrical, 2–6 mm and the leaf blades are lanceolate to narrowly so, 40-80 × 10–30 mm long, grey-green on the back and pilose mostly in the axils of lateral vein” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- PubescentrecordedCovered in short, soft hairs.“The petioles are cylindrical, 2–6 mm and the leaf blades are lanceolate to narrowly so, 40-80 × 10–30 mm long, grey-green on the back and pilose mostly in the axils of lateral vein” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Axlewood itself; the rest are typical of the Combretaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded“The calyx tubes are approximately 5 mm long, abaxially yellow pubescent, densely so on ovary and tubular part, and more sparsely so on the cup-shaped part.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“The flowers are numerous sessile on flower heads 9–13 mm in diameter;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- Cone-like clusterrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Axlewood itself; the rest are typical of the Combretaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Axlewood
A member of the Combretaceae family, Axlewood (Anogeissus acuminata) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. It grows in dry deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Uses
In practice it is cut for timber and furniture and a source of dye or tannin.
Combretaceae
Indian almond family
Axlewood belongs to the Combretaceae family.
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