Herbarium JCB

Acacia ferruginea DC.

Family : FABACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
Subfamily : Mimosoideae
Species : Acacia ferruginea
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acacia ferruginea DC.
Common name : Foreign White Sundra
Vernacular name : Banni (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 461, KFP 6736
Collector(s) Name : Syed Maqsood Ahamed
Endemism : South-west India
Key identification features : An armed, moderate-sized deciduous tree. Bark rough, rusty-brown with spines, short hooked, in pairs. Leaves are bipinnate, 4.5 inches with large, gland on the petiole and another between the uppermost pair of pinnae. Stipular spines are short, hooked and in pairs. Pinnae 3-6 pairs with leaflets about 10-20 pairs. Flowers are pale yellow, in slender, axillary spikes. Pod is straight, flat, thin and strap shaped.
Habit : Tree
Native : India
Comments : Sacred Tree. Often produces red leaf galls.
Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
Collection Locality : Adichunchanagiri (Mandya)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere