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Family: Caesalpiniaceae	Genus: Bauhinia	Species: Bauhinia semla Wunderlin( कांडला, सेमला )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Bauhinia retusa Roxb.,Phaneraretusa(Roxb.)Benth.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Kandla, Semla, Chakera, Karial	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	White Orchid Tree	Flowering Period	Oct-Dec
Vernacular /Local Name	Kandla, Semla	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	Up to 1200 m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Pods short stalked, oblong or oblanceolate, flat, firm, splitting open quite late. Seeds are 6-8, flat, circular, dark-brown, smooth.
Habitat	Common; dominant plant of miscellaneous forests, N.W. submontane Himalayas to Nepal.	Bark Type	Exfoliating
Distribution	Native to northern India, northern Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh .	Bark Details	Dark brown
Distribution in Haryana	Morni-Pinjore	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Bi-lobed
Description of Species	Deciduous trees, upto 20 m high, bark dark – brown. Leaves compound, rigidly subcoriaceous, broader than long, entire to shallow cleft only at the tip, base cordatem. Flowers white (dotted pink), on corymbosely branched, terminal panicles, bracts small. Calyx nearly split to the base into 2 – 3 segments. Stamens 10,. Ovary stipitate, densely hairy. Pods 10, flat, deep red when immature, glabrous, hard. Seeds dark – brown, smooth.	Leaf Details	. Leaves compound, rigidly subcoriaceous, broader than long, entire to shallow cleft only at the tip, base cordatem.

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