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Acacia caesia (L.)Willd.

Family	:	Fabaceae
Local name	:	English-Soap bark Malayalam- Incha
Flowering and fruiting period	:	October-December
Distribution	:	Indo-Malesia
Distribution in kerala	:	Wayanad, Palakkad, Kottayam, Kollam,  Kannur, Kasaragode, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thrissur, Kozhikkode, Thiruvananthapuram
Habitat	:	Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
Key Botanical Characters: Stout ramblers; old stem 4-6-angled; prickles strong, recurved, bark fibrous. Leaves 20-25 cm long, pinnae 5-8 pairs, to 7 cm long; leaflets 18-22 pairs, to 11 x 3.5 mm, oblong, apiculate at apex, truncate at base; thinly pubescent below, 3-nerved from base. Heads terminal, panicled. Pods to 13 x 2.2 cm, oblong, flat, acuminate at both ends, marginate.