Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.
Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.
Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.
MS051 : Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 180 |
| Synonym | : | Acacia pendata (L.)Willd.;
Acacia pennata "sensu Baker, p.p. non Willd."; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Chilati, Climbing Acacia, climbing wattle, feather acacia, narrow-leaved soap pod • Hindi: Agla bel, Biswal • Marathi: shembarati, shembi • Tamil: inthu, kattintu, kattuchikai • Malayalam: kaariinja, inja • Telugu: guba korinda • Kannada: kaadu seege • Oriya: gohira • Konkani: sambu • Sanskrit: ari, khadiravallari, shilikhadira, tamrakantaka, vallikhadira • Nepali: arkhu |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Woody climbers, stem to 4 cm diameter, smooth; branchlets, rachises and inflorescence densely, minutely, light brown tomentellous; the branches and the underside of the rachises with recurved, hooked, smooth prickles, those on the branchlets 2-4 mm long, their base broad. Leanes alternate, bipinnate; rachis up to 15 cm long with 4 cm petiolar part which has scattered c. 1 mm long prickles and a large, flattish, oval gland near its base; smaller, more rounded flattened glands are found between the bases of the upper 1-3 pairs of pinnae; pinnae 7-18 pairs, up to 4 cm long with slender, sparsely tomentellous rachillae without thorns; leaflets sessile, chartaceous, overlapping, usually glabrous with fimbriate margins, very small, 30-50 pairs, very narrow, linear, base oblique, midrib diagonal, running along and very near the margins, 2-3 x 0.5-1 mm, mucronate. Flower heads globose, 1-3 together in leaf axils and these combined into a terminal, many-umbelled panicles, up to 20 cm long, densely pale brown tomentellous. Heads 1-2 cm diameter. Flowers subsessile; bracts spathulate, apical part fimbriate. Buds brown red. Calyx thin, campanulate, 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous or very minutely and shortly pilose, the teeth distinct, 1 mm long, brown red. Corolla hardly 1 mm longer than the calyx, light green, the tips of the lobes green or red brown. Pod 15-20 x 2-3 cm, strap-shaped, flat with slightly raised sutures, smooth, reddish brown, thin, the suture straight with few or no indents, dehiscent, along both sutures, distinctly stalked, apex acute; seeds 6-12, flat, round; the pod slightly bullate over the seeds. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Leaf juice mixed with milk is used for treatment of indigestion in infants. It is also used for scalding of urine and for curing bleeding gums. Some people use boiled tender leaves for cholera treatment, digestive complaints, relief of headache, body pain, snake bites, and even to cure fish poisoning. The root can be used for inducing flatulency and to cure stomach pain. The bark is used for treatment of bronchitis, asthma and for stomach complaints. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: octacosanol; beta-amyrin; uvaol; beta-stosterol; erthrodiol; arabin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32012
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Climbing%20Acacia.html |
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| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family |
| Genus | : Acacia |
| Species | : Acacia pennata (L.) Willd. |