Morphology

It is a large shrub or small tree with drooping branches and greyish-green leaves. Tree attains a height ofabout 2.5 to 5m. The leaves are simple 5 to 12.5cm in length and 1 to 3.2cm in width, narrowly oblong, obtuse, and entire with undulating margins. Flowers are large, beautiful, orangered and odourless. Flowers are present in corymbose few flowered racemes, terminating short lateral branches, pedicles are 6 to 13 mm long, Calyx 9.5 to 11mm long, campanulate. Flowers are beautifully coloured and found in yellow, red and orange colours. Flower is considered as the state flower of Rajasthan. Lobes are 3mm long, broadly ovate, obtuse, mucronate. Corolla is 3.8 to 6.3cm long, orange yellow, campanulate, veined. Lobes are 5 subequal rounded. Stamens are exerted and filaments are glabrous. Stigma are 2 lamellate, lobes are spathulate-oblong, rounded. The tree blooms in the month of April-May and bears fruits, thereafter. Capsules are 20 by 1 cm slightly curved, linear-oblong, acute, smooth. Valves are thin. Seeds are 2.5 by 1 cm. Wings are very narrow round the apex of seed while absent at its base.

It is distributed in the drier parts of Arabia, southern Pakistan and northwestern India up to an elevation of 1200 meters.

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