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Acacia ferruginea
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Mimosoideae)
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Citation: Acacia ferruginea DC., Prodr. 2: 458. 1825; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 295. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 428(303). 1919; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 39. 1992; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 117. 1999; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 611. 1996.
Mimosa ferruginea (DC.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 561. 1832, non Rottl., 1803.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Arimedam, Baabolamaram, Gonthumaram, Karivelam, Parama, Pouvelam, Vanni
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees; to 20 m high; bark 10-12 mm thick, dark brown, rough, deeply fissured, blaze pink; branchlets brownish or blackish. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipular spines in pairs, nodal, 0.5-6 mm long, hooked or sometimes straight; rachis 3. 5-8 cm, slender, grooved above, pulvinate, glabrous, with a gland at the base of the rachis on the upper side; pinnae 4-6 pairs, opposite, even pinnate, 4.5-5.5 cm, slender, with a gland in between terminal 2 pinnae pairs on upper side; leaflets 20-44, opposite, sessile, lamina 5-8 x 2-3 mm, linear-oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous, midrib subcentral, lateral nerves obscure. Flowers bisexual, pale yellow, 4-4.5 cm long, in spikes arranged in loose panicles; bracts and bracteoles cauducous; calyx 1-1.5 x 1.5-1.8 mm, campanulate, 5-lobed, puberulous; corolla 2.5-3 mm, twice longer than the calyx, lobes oblong, glabrous; stamens many, 3-5 mm long, basally connate; ovary stipitate, terete; style 2.5-3 mm long, filiform; stigma small, terminal. Fruit a pod 7.5-17.5 x 1.6-1.8 cm, strap shaped, flat, dark brown, round and apiculate or shortly attenuate at apex, glabrous, transversely reticulate-veined, attenuate at base into a stipe; seeds 2-6, ovate, flat.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-March
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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 and Sri Lanka
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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:
-900
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Localities:
Samplampetty
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