Trees, to 20 m high, bark brown to brownish-black, rough with vertical fissures; branchlets warty, tomentose. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; stipules lateral, minute, cauducous; rachis 8-13 cm long, slender, glabrous, pulvinate; leaflets 20-34, opposite, sessile, estipellate; lamina 1.5-4 x 0.4-1.3 cm, oblong, base unequal, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, looped at the margin forming intramarginal nerve; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, 1 cm across, yellow with reddish-pink dots, in lax terminal racemes; bracts and bracteoles ovate-oblong, coloured, cauducous; pedicels upto 5 mm; calyx tube narrowly turbinate, lined by disc; lobes 4, subequal, oblong, imbricate; petals 3, outer one, 1 x 0.3 cm, rolled up, pink dotted, lateral 2, 1-1.5 x 0.7-1 cm, clawed, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, lower pair scaly; stamens 9 monadelphous, only 3 fertile, others reduced to bristle, base pubescent; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate, adnate to the disc, ovules many; style attenuate, tomentose; stigma globose. Fruit a pod 10-15 x 1-2 cm, oblong, fruit wall crustaceous, mesocarp pulpy, endocarp septate, leathery, indehiscent; seeds 3-8 or more, obovoid-orbicular, compressed, brown.

Canopy compact and spreading. Trunk stout with deep furrows, Bark thick, dark brown, cracked. Leaves compound. Small flowers, yellowish with red veins in the petals. Fruit a brown curved pod, seeds enclosed in choclate brown pulp.

Assamese

• Teteli

Eng

• Tamarind

English

• Indian date

• Sampalok

• Tamarind

• Tamarind tree

Hin

• Imli

Hindi

• Imli

Irula

• Puliyamaram

• Sullamaram

Kannada

• Hunse

Malayalam

• Amlam

• Balapuli

• Kolpuli

• Puli

• Valampuli

Other

• Assamese

• Bengali

• Camalindo

• Gujarati

• Hindi

• Indian Date

• Kannada

• Konkani

• Madeira Mahogany

• Malayalam

• Manipuri

• Marathi

• Nepalese

• Oriya

• Pali

• Puliya

• Punjabi

• Sanskrit

• Sulla

• Tamarind

• Tamil

• Telugu

• Tintuli

• Urdu

•  Imlii

• Amli

• Amili

•  Amlaphalah

•  Amlam

•  Amlavrukshah

•  Amalika

•  Amlika

•  Amalah

•  Imli

•  Imli

•  Gurupatra

•  Chandah

•  Charitra

• Chincha

•  Chintidi

• Chinch

• Chinchyaam

•  Chukramla

•  Chukra

•  Titri

•  Tintidika

•  Tintiri

•  Tintidah

•  Tintili

•  Tintilika

•  Phalamlam

•  Mahamlam

•  Vrukshamlam

•  Shreshtamlam

• Khati Aamli

•  Amlika

•  Amlamu

•  Chincha

• Chinta

•  Tintrin

•  Ambli

•  Imli

• Hunase

•  Ambilam

•  Intam

•  Ekin

•  Etala

•  Otimam

•  Kincam

•  Canciva-karani

•  Cantan

•  Puli

• Puli

•  Valamapuli

• Amlika

•  Tintidika

•  Tentula

•  Tenteli

•  Mange

Tamil

• Puli

• Puliyamaram

highly commercialized medicinal plants is known for its potent anti-inflammatory activities. 7, 8 This tropical tree has been used to treat inflammation, stomach pain, throat pain, and rheumatism in traditional medicine