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|image = Balanites roxburghii.JPG
|genus = Balanites
|species = roxburghii
|authority = [[Jules Émile Planchon|Planch.]]<ref name=WCSP>{{WCSP | 19478 | accessdate = 1 February 2017}}</ref>
|synonyms =
*''Agialid roxburghii'' {{Au|(Planch.) Kuntze}}
*''Balanites indica'' {{Au|Tiegh.}}
*''Balanites jacquemontii'' {{Au|Tiegh.}}
*''Balanites rigida'' {{Au|Royle ''ex'' B.D.Jacks.}}
*''Coccocypselum herbaceum'' {{Au|Royle}}
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'''''Balanites roxburghii''''' is a spiny, evergreen tree. It is common in open sandy plains of the [[Indian peninsula]], western [[Rajasthan]], west [[Bengal]], [[Maharashtra]], Gujarat and drier parts of [[India]]. The [[Botanical name#Binary name|specific epithet]] ''roxburghii'' refers to the Scottish botanist [[William Roxburgh]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Stearn |first=William |year=1973  |edition=Revised |publication-date=1963 |title=A Gardenerer's Dictionary of Plant Names |location=London |publisher=Cassell |page=278 |isbn=0304937215 }}</ref>
[[File:Indian Medicinal Plants (Plates Vol 2) (page 27 crop).jpg|thumb|left|Botanical illustration of Balanites roxburghii.]]
==References==
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*Sands, Martin J. S. 2001. The Desert Date and Its Relatives: A Revision of the Genus ''Balanites''. ''Kew Bulletin'', 56: 1–128.
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[[Category:Balanites|roxburghii]]
[[Category:Flora of India (region)]]
[[Category:Flora of Rajasthan]]
[[Category:Flora of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Medicinal plants of Asia]]
[[Category:Drought-tolerant trees]]
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