This is *Woodfordia fruticosa* of Lythraceae. Its a shrub and the leaves are simple (not compound) and opposite. I appreciate your observations of such subtle features...
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rashmi Khiani <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > This one puzzled me because in the dense thicket I could not determine > whether it is a climber or a shrub or a small tree in Karjat region. I > plucked one leaf and it had around 18 pairs of leaflets. What struck me is > that the bottom-most pair of leaflets was twisted at almost a right angle > to the ones above - as seen in the 3rd & 4th photo. > > -- > Kind regards, Rashmi > > -- > > > > --
