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'''Acacia pennata''' is a large scrambling or climbing shrub. It is native to South, and South-East Asia, and found throughout India up to 1700 meters in the Himalayas. It is a very useful plant with edible leaves.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Stomach ache}}, {{Uses|Indigestion}}, {{Uses|Scalding of Urine}}, {{Uses|Bleeding gums}}, {{Uses|Headache}}, {{Uses|Bodypain}}, {{Uses|Bronchitis}}, {{Uses|Asthama}}.<ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
==Chemical Composition==
Phytochemical investigations of the aerial parts of Acacia pennata (Mimosaceae) from Myanmar led to the isolation of five flavonoid glycosides and six known compounds.
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==Common names==
{{Common names|sa=Ari, Vallikhadira|en=Rusty mimosa, Climibing wattle|hi=Agla BelAglabel, Biswal, Shembi|kn=Kaadu Seege|ml=Kattusinikka, Peincha, Kareencha|mr=Shembarat|ta=Kattintu, Vellai Indu|te=Guba Korinda}}
==Properties==
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|Axillary and terminal panicles of heads|Creamish white||Flower heads globose, 1-3 together in leaf axils and these combined into a terminal, many|Flowering: October -umbelled panicles, up to 20 cm long, densely pale brown tomentellous. Heads 1-2 cm diameter. Flowers subsessile; bracts spathulate, apical part fimbriate. Buds brown red. Calyx thin, campanulate, 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous or very minutely and shortly pilose, the teeth distinct, 1 mm long, brown red. Corolla hardly 1 mm longer than the calyx, light green, the tips of the lobes green or red brown.January}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|A stipitate pod|15-20 x 2-3 cm||Strap-shaped, flat with slightly raised sutures, smooth, reddish brown, thin, the suture straight with few or no indents, dehiscent, along both sutures, distinctly stalked, apex acute|seeds Seeds 8-12, flat, round; the pod slightly bullate over the seeds.|Fruiting: October - January}}
===Other features===
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<ref name="chemical composition">["https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Flavonoid-glycosides-from-the-aerial-parts-of-in-Kim-Choi/459075a9aea7fca2211979d93824c49bb62396fc Chemistry"]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32012 Morphology]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[ Cultivation]</ref><ref name="CultivationUses"]>Kappathagudda - A Repertoire of Medicinal Plants of Gadag, Page no: 35</ref>
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