Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Lingoum santalinum (L.f.) Kuntze
Vernacular name: Chenchandanam Rakthachandanam
Habit: Tree
Habitat: Cultivated
Distribution: Peninsular India
Flowering and fruiting: September-January
Key identification features: A small to medium-sized, deciduous tree with a dense, rounded crown; bark blackish-brown, deeply cut into rectangular plates, yielding a deep red latex when cut; heartwood extremely hard, dark purple. Flowers yellow, borne a few together in simple or sparingly branched racemes
Uses: Used as an antipyretic, anti- inflammatory, anthelmintic, tonic, hemorrhage, dysentery, aphrodisiac, anti-hyperglycaemic and diaphoretic.
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