• Family : MIMOSACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BABOOL FAMILY (बबूल फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Mimosoideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mimosa hamata Willd.
• Vernacular name : Sagarimullu (Kannada)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Scrub jungles
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 27/09/2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-373
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Nellore district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Bidar district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Native : S. America
• World Distribution : Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India.
• 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=Mimosa hamata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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