Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 76

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

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scientific name

Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.
status

 

Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.

Names.

Myanmar: tanaung. English: white-barked acacia.

Range.

Western Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Siam, Indonesia, and Java. In Myanmar, found in Bago, Magway, Mandalay, and Shan.

Use.

Bark: Used as an astringent.

Note.

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

References.

Nordal (1963), Perry (1980).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Acacia