Senegalia chundra (roxb. ex Rottler) Maslin

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Senegalia

Characteristics

Tree to 6 m high. Bark brown. Branchlets glabrous or almost so; prickles in pairs at nodes or sometimes absent, slightly recurved or ±straight, to 5 mm long. Stipules caducous, inconspicuous. Leaves: petiole mostly 1.5–5 cm long, with a raised oblong or discoid gland; rachis mostly 6–12 cm long, with a gland usually present at junction of each of top 1 or 2 pairs of pinnae; pinnae mostly 12–20 pairs; pinnules mostly 30–50 pairs per pinna, narrowly oblong to linear, 3–6 mm long, glabrous throughout or ciliate. Inflorescences spicate, axillary, solitary or fascicled. Flowers yellowish white; calyx cupular, less than half as long as corolla, glabrous. Pods oblong, straight or almost so, 6–12 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, dehiscent. Seeds not seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.0
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses charcoal drug dye industrial invertebrate food medicinal pharmaceutical industry printing inks tanning wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Antiviral agents (aerial part), Parasympatholytics (aerial part), Spermatocidal agents (aerial part), Abscess (bark), Anti-infective agents, local (bark), Astringents (bark), Furunculosis (bark), Spermatocidal agents (bark), Toothache (bark), Ulcer (bark), Vitiligo (bark), Abscess (leaf), Sexually transmitted diseases (leaf), Toothache (leaf), Ulcer (leaf), Analgesics (plant exudate), Anti-bacterial agents (root), Atherosclerosis (unspecified), Leukemia (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified), Stomatitis (unspecified), Vitiligo (wood)
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Senegalia chundra world distribution map, present in Australia, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77125574-1
WFO ID wfo-0001335075
COL ID 4WNXF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 628998
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Synonyms

Acacia chundra Acacia sandra Mimosa sundra Acacia sundra Senegalia chundra Acacia catechu var. sundra Mimosa chundra