Acacia ferruginea DC.

Trees; to 20 m high; bark 10-12 mm thick, dark brown, rough, deeply fissured, blaze pink; branchlets brownish or blackish. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipular spines in pairs, nodal, 0.5-6 mm long, hooked or sometimes straight; rachis 3. 5-8 cm, slender, grooved above, pulvinate, glabrous, with a gland at the base of the rachis on the upper side; pinnae 4-6 pairs, opposite, even pinnate, 4.5-5.5 cm, slender, with a gland in between terminal 2 pinnae pairs on upper side; leaflets 20-44, opposite, sessile, lamina 5-8 x 2-3 mm, linear-oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous, chartaceous, midrib subcentral, lateral nerves obscure. Flowers bisexual, pale yellow, 4-4.5 cm long, in spikes arranged in loose panicles; bracts and bracteoles cauducous; calyx 1-1.5 x 1.5-1.8 mm, campanulate, 5-lobed, puberulous; corolla 2.5-3 mm, twice longer than the calyx, lobes oblong, glabrous; stamens many, 3-5 mm long, basally connate; ovary stipitate, terete; style 2.5-3 mm long, filiform; stigma small, terminal. Fruit a pod 7.5-17.5 x 1.6-1.8 cm, strap shaped, flat, dark brown, round and apiculate or shortly attenuate at apex, glabrous, transversely reticulate-veined, attenuate at base into a stipe; seeds 2-6, ovate, flat.

Bark rough, cracking into pieces. Prickles curved, paired.

Habit: Medium Sized Tree

Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

Maharashtra: Dhule, Kolhapur, Nasik, Pune, Konkan