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Acacia chundra
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Mimosoideae)
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Citation: Acacia chundra (Roxb. ex Rottl.) Willd., Sp. Pl. 4: 1078. 1806; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 185. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 38. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 117. 1999.
Mimosa chundra Roxb. ex Rottl., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften 4: 207. 1803.
Mimosa sundra Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 225. 1811 & Fl. Ind. 2: 562. 1832.
Acacia sundra (Roxb.) DC., Prodr. 2: 295. 1825; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 295. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 428(303). 1919.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Karingali, Kannali
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Cutch tree, Red kutch
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Description:
Trees; to 8 m high; bark rusty brown; rough, peeling off in thin flakes; branchlets smooth, glabrous, pale purplish-brown. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipular spines short, hooked to 8 mm; rachis 8-10 cm long, slender, grooved above, pulvinate, glabrous; pinnae 10-15 pairs opposite, even pinnate, 2-4 cm long, slender, with a gland at the base of lowest pair of pinnae and between 1-2 extreme pairs on upper side; leaflets 30-60, opposite, sessile, stipels absent; lamina 4-10 x 1-2 mm, linear-oblong, base unequally truncate, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous, midrib subcentral, lateral nerves obscure. Flowers yellowish-white, 2 mm across, in axillary 1-3 clustered spikes shorter than leaves; calyx tube campanulate, 1 mm long, 5-lobed, glabrous; corolla three times as long as calyx, lobes linear-lanceolate, glabrous; stamens many, connate at base; ovary stipitate, falcate, upto 1.5 mm, glabrous; style filiform; stigma small, terminal. Fruit a pod, 5-10 x 1.5-2 cm, stipitate, flat, thin, glabrous, strongly nerved, obtuse at base, apically horned; suture wavy, depressed between seeds; seeds ca.6, ovoid, greenish-brown.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-August
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
Peninsular India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow, White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Poomaram odai, Walayar
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