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Family: Sterculiaceae	Genus: Sterculia	Species: Sterculia villosa Roxb.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Sterculia armata Mast., Sterculia lantsangensis Hu	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Hairy Sterculia	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Elephant Rope Tree	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Udaal	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up to 1000 m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Fruit an aggregate of 2-7 follicles, each 3.5-7.5 cm long, brown, tomentose, seeds many, black, smooth
Habitat	Occurs in dry deciduous forests and moist deciduous forests	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	India, Myanmar and South Asia	Bark Details	Bark pale-brown, smooth with small corky warts; blaze red; branches horizontal and whorled
Distribution in manipur		Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Oblong
Description of Species	Deciduous trees, to 10 m high, bark pale-brown, smooth with small corky warts; blaze red; branches horizontal and whorled. Leaves simple, palmately 5-7 lobed, alternate, crowded at the end of branchlets; stipules free, lateral, cauducous; petioles 7-25 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; lamina 6.5-45 x 9-45 cm, lobes oblong-ovate or ovate, base cordate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and downy beneath, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from the base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 4-8, parallel, prominent, intercostae subscalariform-reticulate, prominent	Leaf Details	Leaves simple, palmately 5-7 lobed, alternate, crowded at the end of branchlets; stipules free, lateral, cauducous; petioles 7-25 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; lamina 6.5-45 X 9-45 cm, lobes oblong-ovate or ovate

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