Vachellia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.
| Kannada Name : | Bili jaari mara, Naayi bela |
| Common Name : | White bark acacia |
| Family Name : | Fabaceae |
| Scientific Name : | Vachellia leucophloea |
| Species Type : | Indigenous |
| Phenology : | Deciduous |
| Conservation Status : | Not known |
| Flowering Period : | July - November |
| Fruiting Period : | April - June |
| Origin : | South and Southeast Asia |
Uses
The bark extracts are used in Pakistani traditional medicine as an astringent, a preventive of infections, an anthelmintic, a vulnerary, a demulcent, an expectorant, an antipyretic, an antidote for snake bites and in the treatment of bronchitis, cough, vomiting, wounds, ulcers, diarrhea, dysentery and skin diseases.
Description
Deciduous trees, up to 20 m high; bark yellow to yellowish-brown, rough, exfoliating in irregular scales; blaze light red; branchlets yellowish-velvety, spines present. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, pinnae 5-15 pairs; leaflets 30‐54, opposite, sessile, linear, glabrous above, pubescent below, chartaceous, base oblique, truncate, apex subacute, margin ciliate. Inflorescence a head in terminal panicle. Flowers yellow or yellowish-white. Fruit a pod, flat, strap-shaped, straight or sometimes curved, somewhat bullate along seeds, thin walled, round or often mucronate at apex, minutely brown tomentose, sessile to subsessile, tardily dehiscent; seeds ovate.
