Acacia concinna
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Acacia concinna is a plant from the genus of Acacia ( acacia ). Their distribution area is in tropical Asia .
description
Appearance and leaf
Acacia concinna grows as a climbing or loosely spreading shrub or small tree . The bark of the branches and the rhachis leaves are hairy gray and woolly. The abundant spines are tiny and hook-shaped.
The alternately arranged and 10 to 20 cm long leaves are bipinnate. The 6 to 18 pairs of first-order feathers are 8 to 12 cm long. There are glands near the petioles and one between the uppermost first-order pinna. There are 15 to 25 pairs pinna leaflet (Fiedern 2nd order) are present. The membranous, rough hairy or balding leaf surfaces are blue-green on the underside and green on the upper side. The leaflets are linear-elongated with a length of 8 to 12 mm and a width of 2 to 3 mm. The leaf margin is ciliate. The leaflets have a wrinkled appearance when they are dried up. The early falling stipules are 3 to 8 mm long and 1.5 to 6 mm wide and heart-shaped.
Inflorescence and flower
The flowering period in China extends from April to June. In panicle-like total inflorescences are the spherical partial inflorescences, which have a diameter of 9 to 12 mm, on woolly hairy inflorescence axes. The fragrant flowers are white to yellowish with a double flower envelope . The five approximately 2 mm long sepals are fused together like a funnel. The petals protrude slightly beyond the sepals. The stalked ovary is hairless or hairy.
Fruit and seeds
The brown, fleshy legume is 8 to 15 cm long and 2 to 3 cm wide and belt-shaped with a wrinkled surface. The straight or curved constrictions look like the legume is breaking into segments. Each legume contains six to ten seeds. The fruits ripen in China between July and December.
Occurrence
Acacia concinna is common in tropical Asia . In China, Acacia concinna thrives in sparse forests and thickets at altitudes between 200 and 1100 meters in the provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi and Yunnan.
Taxonomy
This species was named ( Basionym ) by Willd in 1806 . in Species Plantarum. Editio quarta , 4 (2), p. 1039 first published . A homonym is Mimosa concinna Benth. published in George Bentham: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London , 30 (3), 1875, pp. 404-405. The now accepted name Acacia concinna was given by DC in 1825 . published in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis , 2, p. 464. The same basionym also applies to the species Acacia sinuata (Lour.) Merr.
use
Acacia concinna provides tannins and is used in traditional Chinese medicine .
As ethnobotanic use for Acacia concinna be detergent , insecticide , fish poison ( piscicide ), soap , tumor specified treatment.
A traditional Ayurvedic shampoo and hair care product known as Shikakai ( Hindi : शिकाकाई, śikākāī; in Sanskrit Saptala) is made from the fruits .
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- Delin Wu & Ivan C. Nielsen: Acacia concinna , p. 58 , In: Delin Wu & Ivan C. Nielsen: Acacieae , p. 55, In: Wu Zhengyi & Peter H. Raven: Flora of China , Volume 10, 2010, Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis: online with same text. (Section Description and Occurrence)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Delin Wu & Ivan C. Nielsen: Acacia concinna , p. 58 , In: Delin Wu & Ivan C. Nielsen: Acacieae , p. 55, In: Wu Zhengyi & Peter H. Raven: Flora of China , Volume 10, 2010, Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis: same text online.
- ↑ Willdenow 1806 at biodiversitylibrary.org .
- ↑ DC. 1825 at biodiversitylibrary.org .
- ↑ Entry in Tropicos .
- ^ Acacia concinna in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ↑ Entry with Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry in Flowers of India .
- ↑ Entry on TNAU Agritech Portal from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
- ^ Entry in Philippine medicinal plant .
- ↑ Komal Khanpara, Renuka, Dr. VJ Shukla, Harisha CR: A DETAILED INVESTIGATION ON SHIKAKAI (ACACIA CONCINNA LINN.) –FRUIT , In: Journal of Current Pharmaceutical Research , 2012, 9 (1), pp. 06-10: PDF. ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
