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Acacia chundra (Rottler) Willd.
Synonym : Mimosa sundra Roxb.
Family
: Mimosoideae
Local Names : Karingali, Kannali, Cutch tree,
Red Kutch
Flowering
and fruiting period:
July – August
Distribution: Peninsular India,
Sri Lanka and Myanmar
Habitat: Dry deciduous
forests
IUCN
status:
Data Deficient
Endemic: Yes
Uses: The bark is medicinal and used to cure diarrhoea.
A combination of the bark and root boiled in water helps to bring down high
blood pressure. Strong timber can be used for construction and agricultural
implements. Wood is very hard; used for agricultural implements, rice pounders
and as fuelwood.
Key
Characters:
Trees; to 8 m high; bark rusty brown; rough.
Leaves bipinnate, alternate; stipular spines short, pulvinate; leaflets 30-60,
opposite; lamina linear-oblong, margin entire, glabrous. Flowers
yellowish-white, in axillary 1-3 clustered spikes shorter than leaves; calyx
tube campanulate,
