Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Equisetopsida C. Agardh > Fabales > Fabaceae > Senegalia > S. pennata

Description: Woody climbers, stem to 4 cm diameter, smooth; branchlets, rachises and inflorescence densely, minutely, light brown tomentellous; the branches and the underside of the rachises with recurved, hooked, smooth prickles, those on the branchlets 2-4 mm long, their base broad. Leanes alternate, bipinnate; rachis up to 15 cm long with 4 cm petiolar part which has scattered c. 1 mm long prickles and a large, flattish, oval gland near its base; smaller, more rounded flattened glands are found between the bases of the upper 1-3 pairs of pinnae; pinnae 7-18 pairs, up to 4 cm long with slender, sparsely tomentellous rachillae without thorns; leaflets sessile, chartaceous, overlapping, usually glabrous with fimbriate margins, very small, 30-50 pairs, very narrow, linear, base oblique, midrib diagonal, running along and very near the margins, 2-3 x 0.5-1 mm, mucronate

Flowering and fruiting: October-January

Uses: Chemical products, Environmental, Food and Drink, Medicine

Cultivation: Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org