Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Asclepiadaceae | Genus: Leptadenia | Species: Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forssk.) Decne( खीप, खिप ) |
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| Synonym | Leptadenia spartium Wight & Arn. | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | Khimp, Khip, Khimparlo, Thahawar, Ranser | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Broom bush | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Kheep, Khip | Fruiting Period | April-June |
| Altitude | Up to 500 m | Fruit Type | Follicle |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit a pair of slender, spindle-shaped follicles, apex long-acuminate, glabrous, many-seeded; seeds ovoid, flattened, bearing a coma of long silky hairs at one end. |
| Habitat | Grows commonly and sometimes gregariously on sand-dunes | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Africa - Mauritania across the Sahel to Arabia and on through desert areas to western India. | Bark Details | smooth, green. |
| Distribution in Haryana | Bhiwani, Faridabad, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Karnal, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Palwal, Panipat, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | Erect, much branched, broom-shaped, generally leafless shrub, up to 2.5 m tall. Branches erect, slender, green when young, brown when older, slash yellow, latex translucent. Leaves opposite, entire, almost sessile, soon falling; stipules absent; blade ovate, oblong to linear. Flower in a small axillary umbellate cyme, bisexual, regular, 5-merous, star-shaped; calyx lobes as long as the tube, short-hairy; corolla lobes ovate, cream to yellowish green, short-hairy on both sides; corona lobes fleshy, anthers curved over the stigmatic head, forming a gynostegium; ovary superior. Fruit a pair of slender, spindle-shaped follicles, apex long-acuminate, glabrous, many-seeded; seeds ovoid, flattened, bearing a coma of long silky hairs at one end. | Leaf Details | Leaves opposite, entire, almost sessile, soon falling; stipules absent; blade ovate, oblong to linear. |
