Shrubs or small trees, 2-4 m tall. Bark brown, rough. Branches numerous; branchlets zigzag, with small lenticels. Leaves 2-7 cm; stipules spinelike, spines 1-2 cm, shorter on short branchlets; leaf rachis villous, glandular; pinnae 4-8 pairs, axillary, 1.5-3.5 cm in diam.; leaflets 10-20 pairs, linear-oblong, 2-6 × 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. Heads 1-3, axillary, 1-1.5 cm in diam.; peduncles 1-3 cm, hairy; bracts at or near tip of peduncle. Flowers yellow, fragrant. Calyx ca. 1.5 mm, 5-toothed. Corolla ca. 2.5 mm, 5-toothed. Stamens ca. 2 × as long as corolla. Ovary cylindric, puberulent. Legume brown, straight or curved, turgid, subcylindric, 3-7 cm × 8-15 mm, glabrous, scarcely dehiscent, filled with a pith separating seeds from each other. Seeds several, brown, ovoid, ca. 6 mm.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Acacia acicularis Willd. |
| synonym | Acacia farnesiana var. lenticellata (F.Muell.)Bailey |
| synonym | Acacia indica (Poir.)Desv. |
| synonym | Acacia lenticellata F.Muell. |
| synonym | Acacia minuta (M.E.Jones)R.M.Beauch. |
| synonym | Acacia minuta subsp. minuta |
| synonym | Farnesia odora Gasp. |
| synonym | Farnesiana odora Gasp. |
| synonym | Mimosa acicularis Poir. |
| synonym | Mimosa farnesiana L. |
| synonym | Mimosa indica Poir. |
| synonym | Mimosa suaveolens Salisb. |
| synonym | Pithecellobium acuminatum M.E.Jones |
| synonym | Pithecellobium minutum M.E.Jones |
| synonym | Popanax farnesiana (L.)Raf. |
| synonym | Poponax farnesiana (L.)Raf. |
| synonym | Vachellia farnesiana Wight & Arn. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Shrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Large evergreen lianas; bark dark brown. Leaves compound, unifoliate to imparipinnate; petiolules ca. 3-4 mm long; common petiole terete; lamina ca. 6-10 x 1.7-2.6 cm, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, oblanceolate, rounded or obtuse at base, caudate-acuminate at apex, entire, membranous to subcoriaceous, glabrous and shining on both sides; secondary nerves 4-7 pairs. Flowers in axillary or pseudo terminal panicles, up to 10 cm long, many flowered, glabrous; Flowers ca. 0.5-1 cm across, white; calyx lobes ca. 2-3 mm long, ovate-oblong, persistent; petals ca. 3-5 mm long, oblong. Fruits ca. 1.8-2.5 x 0.8-1.2 cm, obliquely ellipsoid, slightly curved, tapering to a point. Seeds solitary, ca. 1-2 cm long, oblong, enveloped by a red aril.
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Dry Deciduous Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Dry deciduous forest
Description
Global Distribution
India, America.
Indian Distribution
Andaman & Nicobar Island, Assam and Mizoram.
Assam Distribution
Bongaigaon
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Assam and Andaman & Nicobar Island
Maharashtra: Kolhapur, Nasik, Pune, Ratnagiri, Thane
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=24
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=24 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 527 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=24
Information Listing > References
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 527 Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=24
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Acacia |
| Species | Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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