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Parkia javanica | |
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At Wahiawa Botanical Garden, Hawaii | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
Genus: | Parkia |
Species: | P. javanica |
Binomial name | |
Parkia javanica | |
Synonyms | |
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Parkia javanica Lam., syn. Parkia roxburghii G. Don. (Indonesian: kedaung, Javanese: kedhawung, Filipino: cupang) is a plant of the genus Parkia [1] in the family Mimosaceae. [2]
Parkia javanica is a middle-sized, unarmed tree that can reach a height of up to 30 meters, characterized by spreading branches and brown, pubescent twigs. The leaves are alternate, compound, and bipinnate, with a long petiole that often contains glands below the lower pair of pinnae and a few between the upper pinnae. The pinnae vary from 8 to 30 pairs, while the leaflets, numbering 40 to 80 pairs, are closely set, sessile, linear-oblong in shape, and fulcate (sickle or scythe shaped), with a base that appears as if cut off by a straight transverse line (truncate). [2] The leaf base is often swollen, forming a pulvinus.
The tree’s inflorescence is racemose, featuring dense, clavate heads with sterile flowers lower down, [2] on long peduncles measuring 30 to 40 cm. The receptacle of the inflorescence is narrowed into a 2.5–3 cm long stalk.[ citation needed ] The small, pale yellow flowers are complete, bisexual, regular, actinomorphic, hypogynus, pentamerous, and thalamus slightly cup shaped, with silky pubescent bracts on the outside. The calyx comprises five sepals that are gamosepalous, tubular, and imbricate, [3] which is unique to the genus within the Mimosaceae family (which is usually valvate).
The corolla consists of five pale yellow petals that are fused at the base, forming a short tube, cleft halfway down and valvate. The androecium has 10 monadelphous stamens with filiform filaments, and united in the lower part with each other, exserted; anthers narrow, without apical glands, versatile. The gynoecium is monocarpellary with a superior ovary and a single, filiform style. The fruit is a linear, subsucculent, flat, strap-shaped pod, measuring 25 to 50 cm in length and 3.5 to 4 cm in width, glabrous, top rounded, base narrowed into a long pedicel. Flowering occurs from October to December, with fruiting from December to April. [2] This species is distributed from India to Taimur and is found throughout Tripura, though it remains scarce in the region. [2]
I) Stamens 10.
II) Flowers in heads.
III) Flowers without apical glands.
IV) Unarmed mid-sized trees.
V) Monadelphous; Flowers pale yellow.
Manipuri- zongchak/yongchak ; Bishnupriya Manipuri- longchak ; Bengali- longchak ; Kokborok (Tripuri)-wakreh ; Mizo-zwangtah ; Indonesian-kedaung ; Javanese-kedhawung ; Filipino-cupang ; Chinese- qui hua dou (Taiwan) ; Burmese- mai-karien ; Malaysia- kedung ; Thai- reang/karieng.
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Some states in the North-East India like Mizoram (where it's called 'Zawngtah'), Manipur (where it's called 'Yongchak'), etc. use its fruit (the bean-liked part) as part of their meal. This bean after having its skin scraped off is eaten raw or cooked by the Mizo and other hill people of north-east India.
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