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It is a beautiful ornamental shrub.
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Description
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Erect, shrub, reaching a height of nearly 2 m., young branches covered with small stipitate glands. Stipules deltoid, 3 mm long. Leaves alternate, bipinnately compound, upto 30 cm long. Pinnae 6-10 pairs, 2-4 cm long, leaflets 6-10 pairs per pinna, 5-7 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm broad, with a row of black glands along margins on lower surface. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, flower c. 5 cm across, yellow. Filaments red in colour, glabrous, hairy at the base, 7-13 cm long. Pod 6-9 cm long, falcate and leathery.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Native of South America; introduced widely in tropical and sub-tropical regions; in W. Pakistan cultivated in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Quetta.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: Almost throughout the year, at least in Karachi.
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Comprehensive Description
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Erythrostemon gilliesii (Hook.) Link, Klotsch & Otto, Ic. PI. 97. 184.^.
Poinciana Gilliesii Hook. Bot. Misc. 1; 129. 1829.
Caesalpinia Gilliesii Wallich; Hook. Bot. Misc. 1 : 129, as synonym. 1829.
Caesalpinia macrantha Delile, Ind. Sem. Hort. Monsp. 1838: 3. 1838.
A shrub, or a tree, 10 m. high or lower. Leaves 1-3 dm. long; pinnae 7-15; leaflets 7-10, oblong, 5-8 mm. long, glabrous, with a row of black glands on the under side near the margin; inflorescence 1-3 dm. long; pedicels 2-3 cm. long; calyx-lobes oblong, thin, pubescent, 2 cm. long; petals obovate, about 3 cm. long, pale yellow; filaments bright red, 10-12 cm. long; legume 6-8 cm. long, obliquely oblong-oblanceolate
Type locality: Near Rio Quarto. Argentina.
Distribution: Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, naturalized after cultivation. Native of Argentina and Chile.
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- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Physical Description
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Perennial, Trees, Shrubs, Woody throughout, Stems erect or ascending, Stems or branches arching, spreading or decumbent, Stems 1-2 m tall, Stems greater than 2 m tall, Plants gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Stems solid, Stems or young twigs glabrous or sparsely glabrate, Leaves alternate, Leaves petiolate, Stipules inconspicuous, absent, or caducous, Stipules green, triangulate to lanceolate or foliaceous, Stipules persistent, Stipules free, Leaves compound, Leaves odd pinnate, Leaves bipinnate, Leaf or leaflet margins entire, Leaflets opposite, Leaflets alternate or subopposite, Leaflets 10-many, Leaves glandular punctate or gland-dotted, Leaves glabrous or nearly so, Inflorescences racemes, Inflorescence terminal, Bracts conspicuously present, Bracts hairy, Flowers actinomorphic or somewhat irregular, Calyx 5-lobed, Calyx glabrous, Petals separate, Petals clawed, Petals orange or yellow, Petals bicolored or with red, purple or yellow streaks or spots, Banner petal narrow or oblanceolate, Banner petal ovoid or obovate, Wing petals narrow, oblanceolate to oblong, Wing tips obtuse or rounded, Keel tips obtuse or rounded, not beaked, Stamens 9-10, Stamens completely free, separate, Stamens long exserted, Filaments glabrous, Style terete, Fruit a legume, Fruit unilocular, Fruit freely dehiscent, Fruit e longate, straight, Fruit oblong or ellipsoidal, Fruit exserted from calyx, Fruit hairy, Fruit gland-dotted or with gland-tipped hairs, Fruit 3-10 seeded, Seeds ovoid to rounded in outline, Seed surface smooth, Seeds olive, brown, or black.
Erythrostemon gilliesii: Brief Summary
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Erythrostemon gilliesii is a shrub in the legume family. It is commonly known as bird of paradise, but it is not related to the bird of paradise genus Strelitzia.
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