Acacia linifolia (Vent.) Willd.
MH058 : Acacia linifolia (Vent.) Willd.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 138 |
| Synonym | : | Acacia linearis (J.C.Wendl.) J.F.Macbr.;
Racosperma linifolium (Vent.) Pedley;
Mimosa linearis J.C.Wendl.;
Mimosa linifolia Vent.;
Mimosa abietina (Willd.) Poir.;
Acacia abietina Willd.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | white wattle, flax wattle |
| Plant Family | : | Fabaceae |
| Description | : | Erect or spreading shrub 1.5–4 m high; bark smooth or finely fissured, greyish; branchlets angled towards apices, finely ridged, glabrous or sometimes hairy. Phyllodes ± linear, ± straight, 2–5 cm long (range: 1.5–7 cm), 0.7–2.5 mm wide (rarely to 3 mm wide), usually glabrous except pulvinus and upper margin near base often sparsely minutely hairy (phyllodes sometimes finely hairy and glabrescent), midvein prominent, lateral veins obscure or not evident, apex acute with a mucro; 1 minute gland 5–15 mm above pulvinus; pulvinus 0.5–2 mm long. Inflorescences 5–17 in an axillary raceme; axis 2–5 cm long; peduncles 2–5 mm long, slender, glabrous or sometimes hairy; heads globose, 6–12-flowered, 4–5.5 mm diam., pale yellow to ± white. Pods straight or curved, ± flat except raised over seeds, ± straight-sided or barely constricted between seeds, often more deeply constricted between some seeds, 3–12 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, thinly leathery, glabrous, often ± pruinose; seeds longitudinal; funicle expanded towards seed. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In open grasslands fields river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~linifolia |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| 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 |
| Genus | : Acacia |
| Species | : Acacia linifolia (Vent.) Willd. |