How to identify Teripod
Identify Teripod by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a liana habit.
- Confirm leaf type: Bipinnately compound (doubly divided, fern-like).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Raceme.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-March.
- Confirm it sits within the Caesalpiniaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Teripod.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Caesalpinia digyna
- Genus
- Caesalpinia
- Family
- Caesalpiniaceae
- Habit
- Liana
- Habitat
- Scrub jungle
- Habitat type
- Scrub
- Distribution
- India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Malaysia, Thailand
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-March
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf type
- Bipinnately compound (doubly divided, fern-like)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Teripod itself; the rest are typical of the Caesalpiniaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- RacemerecordedIndividual stalked flowers arranged along a central stem, opening from bottom to top.“Flowers in simple axillary racemes, 25–30 cm long, pedicels slender 25 mm.long, petals orbicular, yellow, the upper streaked with red, filaments densely wooly in the lower half.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- LegumerecordedA dry pod that splits open along two seams (typical of the pea/bean family).“Pod oblong, turgid, 30–50 mm long, seeds 2–4.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Legume
Characters marked “recorded” are for Teripod itself; the rest are typical of the Caesalpiniaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Teripod
Teripod (Caesalpinia digyna) is a woody climber in the Caesalpiniaceae family. It grows in scrub jungle. Flowering and fruiting run from August to March.
Caesalpiniaceae
Senna family
Teripod belongs to the Caesalpiniaceae family.
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