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Species
Least ConcernCatechu
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Native toAssam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, West Himalaya
Observations524
Observations recorded967
Tropical Himalaya, India, Burma, Thailand, S. China.
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 50
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- MICH, ANSP, MEL, US
- Recorded in
- India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
Catechu
Senegalia catechu, previously known as Acacia catechu, is a deciduous, thorny tree which grows up to 15 m (50 ft) in height. The plant is called kachu in Malay; the Malay name was Latinized to "catechu" in Linnaean taxonomy, as the species from which the extracts cutch and catechu are derived. Other common names for it include kher, catechu, cachou, cutchtree, black cutch, and black catechu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Senegalia catechu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.