Acacia catechu
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Description
Tree to 15 m high.
Branchlets puberulous, armed with paired, to 1 cm long recurved prickles just below the nodes.
Leaves bipinnate, rachis c. 7-17 cm, pilose, petiole gland at or 0.7 cm below the junction of the proximal pair of pinnae, circular to elliptic, flat to concave with raised margins, 1-2.5 mm long;
Stipules subulate, inconspicuous.
Inflorescences consisting of axillary clusters of 1-4 pedunculate spikes, 6-13 cm long.
Seeds 3-10, funicle once contorted.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Burma present, W Pakistan present, monsoon areas of Java
W Pakistan to Burma; altitude sea-level up to c. 1200 m. In Malesia introduced in the monsoon areas of Java.