• Family : FABACEAE
  (PEA OR BEAN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Leguminosae
• Subfamily : Mimosoideae
• Species : Dichrostachys cinerea
• Basionym : Mimosa cinerea L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight. & Arn.
• Common name : Sickel Bush, Bell mimosa
• Vernacular name : Vurttuli, Kheri (Hin.); Banni, Vadavarda gida (Kan.); Vedathalaa (Tam.); Velturi chettu, Veltura chettu, Velthuru (Tel.); Koiridyo (Ori.); Vellantarah (San.)
• Key identification features : Armed trees with branches spreading and ending in a spine. Leaves about 5 cm long, ending in a spine. Glands between pinnae, from sessile to long stalked. Inflorescence is a characteristic head or a spike with pink flowers.
• Habit : Tree
• Flower, Fruit : April-February
• Comments : On plains to 500 m in scrub jungles and deciduous forests. Locally abundant in poor soil.
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Java, Australia, Middle-East; Introduced elsewhere
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Dichrostachys cinerea. Downloaded on 28 January 2025.

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