Acacia ferruginea DC.
Acacia ferruginea DC.
Acacia ferruginea DC.
MT139 : Acacia ferruginea DC.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Mimosa ferruginea Roxb. |
| Plant Common Name | : | Rusty Acacia • Hindi: kaigar, kalgar, kingore, safed khair, safed-khair • Kannada: banni, banni mara, banue, kiri banni • Malayalam: karivelam, thimai-velvelam, vanni • Marathi: dhavi-khair, pandhra khair • Nepali: khour • Sanskrit: arimedah, brahmashalya, dvijapriya • Tamil: cimai-velvel, Chimaivelvel, Karambai • Telugu: anachandra, anasandra, inupa tumma |
| Plant Family | : | MIMOSOIDEAE |
| 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. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | A bark decoction, in conjunction with ginger is frequently used as an astringent for the teeth. The bark of all Acacia species contains greater or lesser quantities of tannins and are astringent. Astringents are often used medicinally - taken internally, for example. they are used in the treatment of Diarrhea and dysentery, and can also be helpful in cases of internal bleeding. Applied externally, often as a wash, they are used to treat wounds and other skin problems, haemorrhoids, perspiring feet, some eye problems, as a mouth wash etc. This is sometimes taken internally in the treatment of Diarrhea and haemorrhoids. used for treating various skin infections, itching, leucoderma, ulcers, inflammation of the mucous lining of the mouth and throat. The plant is also credited for treatment of helminthiasis. dysentery, piles and diabetes. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: quinone; quinoline; imidazolidine; pyrrolidine; cyclopentenone; thiazole; pyrazole; catechin; coumarin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Quercetin; Kaempferol; Apigenin; Myricetin; Betulin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosids |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Fabaceae |
| Genus | : Acacia |
| Species | : Acacia ferruginea DC. |