Heterophragma quadriloculare

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales Family: Bignoniaceae Genus: Heterophragma
Species: Heterophragma quadriloculare
Scientific Name: Heterophragma quadriloculare (Roxb.)

Common names
English: Waras Hindi: Warras, Pullung

Marathi: Murus, Panlag, वारस Waras

Sanskrit

Description
Medium sized trees; 5 to 15 m high; bark 1.3 cm thick, brown or grey, exfoliating in small angular scales; bole rough. Leaves compound, imparipinnate, opposite, clustered at apex, estipulate; rachis 14-23 cm, slender, pulvinate, puberulent; leaflets 7-11, opposite or subopposite; petiolule 3-15 mm, slender, puberulent; lamina 4-5 x 1.8-2.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong; base acute or oblique; apex obtuse or acute; margin entire or crenate, puberulent, coriaceous; lateral nerves, 4-6 pairs, pinnate, prominent, slender, puberulent; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, rose coloured, in terminal woolly tomentose panicle; pedicels to 5 mm, stout; calyx to 2 cm, tubular, irregularly 5 lobed, densely tomentose; corolla to 3.5 cm, floccose, lobes 5, subequal, rounded, crisped; stamens 4, didydynamous, included, anthers divaricate disc cushion shaped; ovary sessile, ovate; ovule many; style to 3 cm; stigma 2 lobed. Fruit a capsule, 25-28 x 5-6.5 cm, oblong, 2 valved, compressed, dissepiments spongy; seeds 2 x 6 cm, membranous, winged at one end.