Dalbergia latifolia Roxb., Fabaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  no

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 5 (Go to the risk assessment)

Common name(s): [more details]

English: black rosewood, blackwood, Bombay blackwood, East Indian rosewood, Indian blackwood, Indian rosewood, Malabar rosewood, shisham

Habit:  tree

Description:  Tree.  Leaf-rachis (inclusive of petiole) 10-16 cm, not conspicuously zigzag; leaflets 3-7, on the highest leaves sometimes only 1, ranging from broadly obovate to elliptic-oblong, on the obtuse, rounded or emarginate top with or without a small triangular cusp, herbaceous or thinly coriaceous, 4-12 cm by 2.5-9 cm. Single flowers all or for the greater part very manifestly pedicelled; keel-petals auricled at the base of their upper margin; stamens 9; style 1.75-2.5 mm. Flowers panicled; bracteoles falling off long before anthesis; pod straight, oblong-strap-shaped. Calyx-tube and ovary glabrous; panicles terminal, often moreover in the highest leaf-axils thinly appressed pubescent or subglabrous, 5-15 cm; bracteoles 177; 3 mm, thinly membranous; calyx-tube 177; 4 mm; corolla white or pale pink; claws of petals 2-3 mm; limb of standard 4-5 mm; stalk of ovary glabrous; ovules 3-6; pod within calyx on a stalk of 0.75-1 cm length, 4-9 cm by 1.5-2 cm; seeds 1-3, rarely 4, 0.75-1 cm long  (Backer & Bakhuizen van de Brink, 1963; pp. 613-615).

Habitat/ecology:  "Leaf-shedding forest in periodically very dry localities; sometimes cultivated" (Backer & Bakhuizen van de Brink, 1963; pp. 613-615).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  India, Nepal and Malaysia (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Indonesia Indonesia	Indonesia (Republic of)	native	ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre (2011)
Malaysia Malaysia	Malaysia (country of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Singapore Singapore	Singapore (Republic of)	introduced cultivated	Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. (2009) (p. 32) Cultivated only

Indian Ocean
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
La Réunion (France) La Réunion Island	La Réunion Island	introduced	ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre (2011)
India (Indian Ocean offshore islands) Andaman Islands	Andaman Islands	native	ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre (2011)
Mauritius Mautitius Islands (Mauritius and Rodrigues)	Mauritius Island	introduced	ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre (2011)

Additional information:
Information from the World Agroforestry Centre's AgroForestryTree Database.

Additional online information about Dalbergia latifolia is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Dalbergia latifolia as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Dalbergia latifolia may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Backer, C. A./Bakhuizen van den Brink, R. C. 1963. Flora of Java, Vol. 1. N.V. P. Noordhoff, Groningen, The Netherlands. 647 pp.

Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. 2009. A checklist of the total vascular plant flora of Singapore: native, naturalised and cultivated species. Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore. 273 pp.

ILDIS Co-ordinating Centre. 2011. International Legume Database & Information Service. Online searchable database.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.