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Senegalia caesia

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Maslin, Seigler & Ebinger

Common Names

• Jian ye xiang si (Pinyin)
• Kelle-doukha (Hindi)
• Aila
• Hinguru Vel

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• Karnataka
• Orissa
• Maharashtra - India
• Java - Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• streamsides
• forest

Flowering Times

• Sep (China) Apr-Sep (India)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (China) Apr-Sep (India)

Spiny woody climber or creeper, tree or scandent shrub with grooved branchlets & large recurved spines. Large leaflets, bipinnate leaves to 150mm long with 8-15 pairs of pinnae & 10-25 pairs of leaflets, mucronate glabrous leaflets to 3mm x 1mm. Terminal or axillary panicles to 12mm diameter with bracts to 6mm long, toothed calyx to 2.5mm long, dull white or yellowcorolla to 3mm long. Fruit a flat mucronate glabrous pod to 170mm long x 30mm.

Further References

• FOC
• JDH
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• USNH
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• FOV
• ILDIS
• SRR