ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 651

• Scientific Name: Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. ex DC.
• Family: Fabaceae
• Trade Name: Sissoo
• Common Name: Shisham, Sissoo (india), Sissou (Nepal)
• പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്‍: സിസോ
• Native: South Arabian Peninsula to Myanmar
• Specimen from:
• Region:
• Collected by: P. K. Thulasidas & K. M. Bhat
• General Characteristics: Trees, with rough, gray bark.leaf blades green when young, shiny when old, Flowers nearly sessile, fra­grant.Legume pale brown when dry.
• Wood Anatomy: Growth rings are distinct to indistinct.Vessels are large and few in early wood and small and few in late wood, often filled with dark, gummy deposits, solitary and in radial multiples of 2 or 3.Rays mostly uniseriate but may be up to 2 or 3 ceriate.
• Taxon identifiers: GBIF iNaturalist POWO