• Family : MIMOSACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BABOOL FAMILY (बबूल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Mimosoideae
• Basionym : Mimosa eburnea L.f.
• Synonym(s) : Acacia campbellii Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acacia eburnea (L.f.) Willd.
• Common name : Black Babool
• Vernacular name : Pika jali (Kannada); Chillodai, Udaivel (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : In plains to scrub jungles.
• Key identification features : Thorny tree, with comparatively large leaves. Stipular thorns large, ivory white, often hallow. Young branches pubescent, stipular spines prominent; gland just below the first pair of pinna. Flower heads in racemes. Pods thin, flat, curved in a hook, glabrous 5 - 10 seeded.
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Collector(s) Name : S.B.Manohar & S.R.Ramesh
• Collection Nos : KFP 5840, KFP 5946
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Arabia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha, 1984; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acacia eburnea. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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