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Botanical Name	Leucaena leucocephala (L.) Gills
Family Name	Mimosaceae
Common Name	Wild Tamarind
Tamil Name	சவுண்டில், ஜூண்டில்
Life Form	Shrub or tree, up to 8 m tall
Distribution	Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia
Botanical Distribution	Habit: Shrub or tree, up to 8 m tall. Leaves:Leaves bipinnatly compound; leaflets opposite, 10 - 17-pairs, linear-oblong, 07 - 1.7 x 02 - 04 mm, oblique at base, entire at margin, obtuse at apex, glabrous; 1-nerved; petiole sessile; rachis 15 - 20 long. Panicles terminal, up to 17 cm long. Flower: Flowers ca. 04 mm across, white; peduncle head, 1.5 cm across. Calyx 5-lobed, free, spatualte, 1 cm long, pilose beneath. Stamens 10, exserted; filament filiform, ca. 2 cm across; anther ovoid. Fruit: Ovary stalked, pubescent; 1-loculed; ovules many; style filiform, 2.5 mm long; stigma minute. Pod flat, striate up to 12.5 cm long; seeds ovate, 05 mm long, glaucous.
Flowering and Fruiting	Aug.
Key Compounds	Hydrocyanic acid, Leucaenine, Mimosine
Medicinal Use	Wounds and swelling, imsomia, Improve sex drive
At the Campus	Throughout the campus