Botanical Name - Acacia

----- Spinose prickly shrubs or trees, erect or climbing. Leaves bipinnate with minute leaflets ; pinnae and leaflets opposite. Flowers yellow or white in globose heads or cylindrical spikes, bisexual or polygamous, usually pentamerous, numerous scaly bracteoles between the flowers, Calyx campanulate, shortly toothed. Petals exserted. united in the lower half. Stamens free, indifinite, exserted. Ovary stalked or sessile, many-ovuled. Pod ligulate or oblong. dehiscent or indehiscent.