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[[File:Linedrawing Dalbergia latifolia.gif|thumb|1, tree habit; 2, flowering twig; 3, leaflet; 4, fruit. Source: PROSEA]]
[[File:Dalbergia latifolia wood rarewoods.jpg|thumb|wood([http://www. obtained from rarewoodsandveneers.com/ Carlton McLendon, Inc.])]]
[[File:Dalbergia latifolia transverse R. Klaassen Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]]
[[File:Dalbergia latifolia tangent R. Klaassen Insidewood.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]]
== Vernacular names ==
*Indian rosewood, East Indian rosewood, Bombay blackwood (En). *Palissandre de l’Inde, palissandre d’Asie (Fr).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Deciduous or evergreen medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall; bole straight or slightly twisted, branchless for up to 12(–24) m, up to 80(–150) cm in diameter, often with prominent buttresses; bark surface whitish to grey, thin, becoming flaking; crown rounded to dome-shaped. *Leaves arranged spirally, imparipinnately compound with (3–)5–7(–9) leaflets; stipules small, caducous; petiole and rachis glabrous; petiolules up to 1 cm long; leaflets alternate, broadly obovate to elliptical-oblong, 4–12 cm × 2.5–9 cm, obtuse, rounded or notched at apex, papery or thinly leathery, glabrous. *Inflorescence a terminal or axillary panicle 5–15 cm long, laxly branched, almost glabrous, many-flowered. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous, 6–8 mm long, distinctly pedicellate; calyx campanulate, c. 4 mm long, lobes shorter than tube, lower lobe longest, upper lobes fused; corolla whitish, with obovate standard and clawed wings and keel; stamens usually 9, fused into a tube, but free in upper part; ovary superior, with distinct stipe at base, style short. *Fruit a flat, elliptical to oblong, papery pod 4–10 cm × 1.5–2.5 cm, with stipe up to 1 cm long, glabrous, reticulately veined, indehiscent, 1–3(–4)-seeded. *Seeds kidney-shaped, 7–10 mm long.
== Other botanical information ==
== Author(s) ==
* R.H.M.J. Lemmens , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands
== Correct citation of this article ==
Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 2008. '''Dalbergia latifolia''' Roxb. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.