| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Mimosoidae |
| Local Name | Natoonjal |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Much branched trees; bark greyish-brown, rough, lenticellate; branchlets brownish or blackish, 2-6 mm thick, terete, initially brownish-puberulous, becomes glabrous, white lenticellate. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral, caducous;rachis 25-50 mm, slender, pulvinate, brownish or greyish pilose, with a gland near the base; pinnae 2-4 pairs, 1.5-5 cm long, opposite, evenly pinnate, slender, pilose, with a gland in between terminal 2 pinnae; leaflets 10-20, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, sessile; lamina 1-1.4 x 0.3-0.8 cm, oblong-obovate, base unequal, apex round or retuse, margin entire, ciliate, tomentellous, glabrous above on maturity and sparsely pilose beneath, chartaceous, midrib more or less central; lateral nerves 3-4 pairs, pinnate, flowers bisexual, white, in globose heads arranged in axillary corymbs; calyx campanulate, fruit a pod 7.5-12 x 1.5-2 cm, strap shaped, flattened, thin walled, straight, often slightly undulate along margins, obtuse to rounded and mucronulate at apex, acute at base, slightly bullate along seeds, blackish-brown when dry, very short; seeds ellipsoid. |