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Botanical Name: Vachellia farnesiana
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Family: Mimosaceae
Common Name: देव बाभूळ
Etymology - Genus: Named after the Rev, George Harvey Vachell, chaplain to the British East India Company
Etymology - Species: Of the gardens of the Farnese Palace in Rome, which in turn was built and named for 17th century Roman Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
Ecosystem: Deciduous
Origin: Native
Location: Pune
Description: Small tree, rough bark with small flakes, young branches are brown with white spots.Bipinnately compound leaf. Stipular spines - Pair of white, straight, conical, pointed, small spines. Presence of soft hairs on Rachis. Presence of gland near 1st pair of pinna.Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets. Leaflet clasp during night.Small yellow heads occur in leaf axil in a set of 2-3. Flowers have pleasant sweet fragrance.Brown woody, turgid (swollen) pod with a characteristic white line along the suture.
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Root type: Taproot-Woody hard
Stem Appearance: Tree
Stem Cross Section: Circular
Stem Texture: Rough bark with small flakes
Root-Stem-Bark Description: Small tree, rough bark with small flakes, young branches are brown with white spots.
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Leaf - Characters
Attachment: Petiolate
Stipules: Spiny
Leaf Type: Bipinnate-Paripinnate
Phyllotaxy: Alternate
Leaf Description: Bipinnately compound leaf. Stipular spines - Pair of white, straight, conical, pointed, small spines. Presence of soft hairs on Rachis. Presence of gland near 1st pair of pinna.
Leaflet - Characters
Lamina: Oblong
Lamina Bases: Rounded-Base
Lamina Margins: Entire
Lamina Apices: Rounded apice
Lamina Texture: Glabrous
Venation: Reticulate-Unicostate
Leaflet Description: Paripinnate, sub-sessile leaflets. Leaflet clasp during night.
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Inflorescence - Characters
Inflorescence: Capitate
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Inflorescence Description: Small yellow heads occur in leaf axil in a set of 2-3. Flowers have pleasant sweet fragrance.
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Flower - Characters
Flower Type: Complete
Flower Symmetry: Actinomorphic
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Position of Whorls: Hypogynous
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Androecium Length of filament: equal
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Androecium Number of Stamens: Many
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Fruit type: Legume
Fruit type Description: Brown woody, turgid (swollen) pod with a characteristic white line along the suture.
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Seed Type: Dicotyledon
Germination type: Epigeal
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