Senegalia catechu

🌿 Common Name: black catechu, black cutch, cashoo, catechu, cutch tree, wadalee gum, दन्त धावन dant-dhavan, गायत्रिन् gayatrin, खैर khair, खयर khayar, मदन madan, पथिद्रुम pathi-drum, पयोर payor, प्रियसख priya-sakh

🔄 Synonyms:
  • Acacia catechu
  • Acacia wallichiana
  • Mimosa catechu

IUCN Status

Not Applicable : Not Applicable
Ravi Kant Saini
Author: Ravi Kant Saini

Hi, This is Ravi Kant Saini a passionate Botanist and a Researcher scholar from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. I used to actively explores the rich flora of Rajasthan, contributing to research and knowledge in the field. #Pseudo_taxonomist #PlantsofRajasthan #TeameFloraofRajasthan #RajasthanFlora 🌾 🍂 🌿 🪹 🪴 🍃 🪺

  • Trees
  • Kota / Jaipur / Udaipur / Chittorgarh / Sawai Madhopur
  • Naturally grown
  • Trees, deciduous, small, 6-10 m tall. Bark split into lami­nar strips. Branchlets pubescent, often with a pair of flat, brown, hooked spines below stipules or without spines. Leaf glands near petiolar base and between several upper leaflets of rachis; rachis villous; pinnae 10-30 pairs; leaflets 20-50 pairs, linear, 2-6 × 1-1.5 mm, ciliate. Spikes 1-4, axillary, 2.5-10 cm. Flowers yellowish or white. Calyx campanulate, 1.2-1.5 cm; teeth deltoid, hairy. Petals lanceolate or oblanceolate, ca. 2.5 cm, sparsely pubescent. Stamens numerous. Ovary ca. 1 mm, glabrous. Legume brown, straight, strap-shaped, 12-15 × 1-1.8 cm, nitid, dehiscent, stalk 3-7 mm, apex rostrate. Seeds 3-10. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Sep to following Jan.

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Plant Phenological Events

Month Phenological Events
July 🌼 Flowering
August 🍏 Unripe Fruiting, 🌼 Flowering

Systematic position

DivisionAngiosperm
ClassDicotyledons
Sub-ClassPolypetalae
SeriesCalyciflorae
OrdRosales
FamilyMimosaceae
SpeciesSenegalia catechu
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Status: Casual Identification
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