Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile (= A. arabica (Lam.) Willd.)

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 77

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile (= A. arabica (Lam.) Willd.)
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Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile (= A. arabica (Lam.) Willd.)

Names.

Myanmar: babu, babul, subyu. English: babul, gum-arabic, Indian gum tree, suntwood.

Range.

Tropical Africa; widely naturalized in India. Naturalized in Myanmar.

Use.

Bark: Used as an astringent.

Note.

In India the bark is employed as an astringent ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Acacia