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Common Names
Khajur
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Taxonomy
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to access the GRIN database record about the specific taxonomical hierarchy (Family, Genus etc.).CLASSIFICATION
TAXON
Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb.
FAMILY
Arecaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
ALTERNATE FAMILY
nom. cons.
TRIBE
Coryphoideae
SUBTRIBE
Phoeniceae
GENUS
Phoenix L.
SPECIES
sylvestris (L.) Roxb. Fl. ind. ed. 1832, 3:787. 1832
Plant Description
A moderate sized dioecious tree, 7.5-15 m tall, without root suckers, stem clothed with remains of petiole bases. Leaves smaller than the Phoenix dactylifera, 96 cm - 4 m long, greyish green, quite glabrous, pinnately divided into numerous leaflets. Leaflets 15-60 cm long and 8-2.5 cm broad, alternate, opposite or fascicled, in several planes, apex almost sharply pointed; lower leaf-lets modified into hard spines, up to c. 12 cm long, petiole short, glabrous, spiny. Inflorescence and flowers as in the Phoenix dactylifera. Fruit drupe, about 2.5 cm long, orange yellow, rounded at the ends, sweet, edible. Seeds woody, longitudinally grooved on one side
Flowering Period: March-April. ;Fruiting Period: August-October.
