Acacia suma Buch.-Ham (somavalkalah) - Medicinal uses, Morphology, Images,Side effects, Pharmacology
Botanical Name: Acacia suma Buch.-Ham.
Family: Mimosaceae
Names in different Indian languages
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English |
White catechu |
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Hindi |
Safed Khair |
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Kannada |
Mugali, kandaraha |
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Malayalam |
venkaringali |
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Sanskrit |
somavalkalah |
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Tamil |
Kovil |
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Telugu |
Somavalkalumu, tellatumma |
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Unani |
Khor, Safed Khair |
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Folk |
Synonyms
Shveta Khadira, Kadara, Somavalkala
- polycanthaWilld
Morphology
This trees grows up to 15 m high, bark yellowish-grey, peels off in thin papery flakes; blaze pink red; branchlets yellow-pubescent; stipular spines infra-axillary, 8-10 mm long, paired, straight or hooked, occasionally lacking on flowering branches. Leaves paripinnate, alternate; rachis 4-20 cm long, slender, pubescent, softly prickled, pulvinate; a gland at the base on upper side; pinnae 15-25 pairs, 4-5 cm long, slender, pubescent; glands between uppermost 4 pairs; leaflets 30-50, opposite, sessile; lamina 5-7 × 0.5-1 mm, densely pubescent, chartaceous, base truncate, apex subacute or obtuse, margin ciliate; midrib near distal margin, lateral nerves and intercostae obscure. Flowers bisexual, 4 mm across, white, in axillary solitary or paired spikes, to 8 cm; peduncle to 1 cm; bracts to 6 mm; bracteoles cauducous; calyx 5-lobed, to 1.5 mm, tomentose; corolla to 3 mm long; lobes 5; stamens many, to 4 mm, basally connate; ovary stipitate, oblong, to 1 mm; style to 4 mm. Fruit a pod, stipitate, 8 ×1.5 cm, glabrous, grey, woody, oblong, base and apex horned; seeds 5-8
uses:
antihaemorrhagic, antiinflammatory
Chemical constituents:
tannin , lupeol and alpha-spinasterol
Descriptions on Ayurveda books / Nighandu:
Acacia torta
