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Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Acacia in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Sp. pl. 4: 1090 (1806).

Indonesia: areuy garut (Sundanese), ri got, rembete (Javanese). Cambodia: thmâ: roëb'. Laos: 'han, 'han 'kha:w (Louang Prabang). Thailand: nam khi raet (south-western), cha om (central, peninsular), phakla (northern). Vietnam: d[oj]c t[aw]ng (Binh Tri Thiên), m[os]c m[ef]o (Bac Thai), d[aa]y s[oos]ng r[aws]n.

India, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, Thailand, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands and south-western Sulawesi.

Acacia pennata has been used in Laos against anaemia. In India, a decoction of young leaves is taken to treat body pain, headache and fever, and a decoction of the roots is applied against rheumatism and cough. The bark is used in India as a substitute for soap, and for tanning fishing nets and to produce reddish-brown leather with a stiff, somewhat harsh structure. Acacia pennata is sometimes cultivated in hedges in Thailand, and the leaves are occasionally used as a vegetable.

A scandent shrub or liana; leaflets chartaceous, lateral veins of leaflets not forming a reticulate pattern beneath, glands on petiole and rachis circular to broadly elliptical or patelliform; flower glomerules 6—8 mm in diameter; pod oblong, (6.5—)9—15.5 cm x 1.5—2.5 cm.Acacia pennata is found in the drier parts of Malesia in monsoon forest and scrub vegetation, up to 1200 m altitude.

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S. Aggarwal

Aggarwal, S., 2003. Acacia pennata (L.) Willd.. In: Lemmens, R.H.M.J. and Bunyapraphatsara, N. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(3): Medicinal and poisonous plants 3. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea