Plant Details

Accepted name:: Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb. [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 9

Vachellia nilotica subsp. adstringens (Schumach.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Vachellia nilotica subsp. cupressiformis (J.L.Stewart) Ali

Vachellia nilotica subsp. hemispherica (Ali & Faruqi) Ali

Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica (Benth.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Vachellia nilotica subsp. kraussiana (Benth.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Vachellia nilotica subsp. leiocarpa (Brenan) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Vachellia nilotica subsp. nilotica

Vachellia nilotica subsp. subalata (Vatke) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Vachellia nilotica subsp. tomentosa (Benth.) Kyal. & Boatwr.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
acacia gomifera	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
acacia à gomme	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
arabic tree	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
arabische gummiakazie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
arabischer gummibaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
australian wattle	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
baani	Other	Med. Pl. in Lagos, Nigeria. (Olowokudejo, 2008)
babalia	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
babbula	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
babhula	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
babla	Other	Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
bable	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
babu	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
babul	Other	MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
babul acacia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
babul tree	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
babula	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
babur	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
barbaramu	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
barkbool	Other	Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
baval	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
black babool	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
black babul	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
boni	Other	Gabon׳s Med. Pl. Markets (Towns et al., 2014)
booni	Other	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in Lagos, Nigeria. (Olowokudejo, 2008)
desi kikar	Other	Med. Pl. for Oral Diseases in C Punjab (Fatima et al., 2018)
egyptian acacia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
egyptian mimosa	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
egyptian thorn	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
garad	Other	Med. Pl. in E & C Africa (EL-Kamali, 2009)
gomme arabique	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
gommier rouge	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gum acacia	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
gum-arabic	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
indian gum	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
indian gum arabic tree	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
indian gum tree	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
indian gum-arabic-tree	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
indian gumtree	Other	Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003)
kalikikar	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
karat	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
karuvel	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
karuvelakam	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
karuvelam	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
kikar	Other	Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
lekkeruikpeul	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mughilan	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
nallatumma	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
nile acacia	Other	Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
ol kiloriti	Other	Folk Taxonomy in Med. Pl. Trade, Tanzania (Otieno et al., 2015)
pitaka	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
pitapushpa	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
prickly acacia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
qarat	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
qard	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
ramakali	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
ramkanti	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
samagh-e-arabi	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
sant tree	Other	Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014)
scentedthorn	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
seeni idda	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014)
subyu	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
sunt	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
suntwood	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
svarnapushpa	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
taggart	Other	Ethnobot. of Med. Pl. from Hoggar, Algeria (Ramdane et al, 2015)
thorn-mimosa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
thorny acacia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tulh	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
tumma	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
umm-e-ghilan	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
varvara	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
vel	Other	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
ضرق	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
gum		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Fruits, bark, exudate		Med. Pl. in Lagos, Nigeria. (Olowokudejo, 2008)
Fruit		Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Fruit		Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000)
Stem		MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
Gum, Seeds, Leaves, Flower, Bark, Stem		Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Bark, Branches		Med. Pl. for Oral Diseases in C Punjab (Fatima et al., 2018)
Leaf, Fruit		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
Fruit, root		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
Bark		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
bark, gum		Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014)
root, leaves, aerial parts, cortex		Ethnobot. of Med. Pl. from Hoggar, Algeria (Ramdane et al, 2015)
fruit		Med. Pl. in E & C Africa (EL-Kamali, 2009)
fruits	dry fruits	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014)
fruit		Gabon׳s Med. Pl. Markets (Towns et al., 2014)
	dried gum	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 7 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Delile Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. 2(Mém.): 79 (1813).
Acacia scorpioides var. nilotica (L.) A.Chev. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 74: 954 (1927).
Acacia arabica var. nilotica (L.) Benth. London J. Bot. 1: 500 (1842).
Acacia nilotica var. typica A.F.Hill Bot. Mus. Leafl. 8: 98 (1940), not validly publ.
Acacia nilotica var. vera Roberty Candollea 11: 149 (1948), not validly publ.
Gumifera nilotica (L.) Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 118 (1838).
Mimosa nilotica L. Sp. Pl.: 521 (1753).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Acacia nilotica	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Folk Taxonomy in Med. Pl. Trade, Tanzania (Otieno et al., 2015) Med. Pl. Marketing in Bangladesh (Dixie et al., 2003) Med. Pl. in Lagos, Nigeria. (Olowokudejo, 2008) Pl. of Soon Valley, Pakistan (Ghani et al., 2014) Trad. Drugs in Israel at End C20th (Lev & Amar, 2000) Trad. Drugs in Jordan (Lev & Amar, 2002)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Del. ssp. Nilotica	Med. Pl. in E & C Africa (EL-Kamali, 2009)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile	Domestic Market in Herb. Med. in Benin (Quiroz et al., 2014) Gabon׳s Med. Pl. Markets (Towns et al., 2014) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile Willd.	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile.	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. for Respiratory Disorders in Abbottabad (Kayani et al., 2014)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Deliled.	Med. Pl. for Oral Diseases in C Punjab (Fatima et al., 2018)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd.	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. Ex Delile	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Delile	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd.ex Delile	Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
Acacia nilotica (L.)Willd. ex Delile nilotica	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Acacia nilotica (Linnaeus) Willdenow ex Delile	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Acacia nilotica L	Ethnobot. of Med. Pl. from Hoggar, Algeria (Ramdane et al, 2015)
Acacia nilotica subsp. nilotica	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
Acacia nilotica(L.) Willd. ex Del.	Unani Pharmacopoeia India (2007-2008)
Acacia scorpioides W. Wight var. nilotica (L.) A. Chev.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Vachellia nilotica (L.) P. J. H. Hurter & Mabb.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Vachellia nilotica (L.) P. J. H. Hurter & Mabb. subsp. nilotica	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Vachellia nilotica (L.) P.J.H.Hurter & Mabb.	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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