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Acacia sinuata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Loureiro) Merrill

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Rangso (Chepang)
• Ramapa (Magar)
• Arali (Nepali)
• Rasula (Nepali)
• Sikakai (Nepali)
• Soap-pod
• Ban-ritha (India)
• Kinmum-gyin (Myanmar)
• Subok-nwe (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Mauritius
• Myanmar
• W. & C. Nepal
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Reunion
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• woodland
• forest river banks.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun Mar to Sep

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Dec Nov to Jan

Prickly twining woody climber or creeper with axillary fragrant white or yellowish flowers, bipinnate leaves, fruit a brown pod to 150mm long

Medicinal uses, source of tannins. Leaves & seeds eaten. Juice of leaves for boils, fruits used for washing hair and clothes.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919 : Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• ILDIS