• 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 leucophloea Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd.
• Common name : White Babool, White-Barked Acacia, Distiller's acacia, White babool
• Vernacular name : Safed Babul, Safedkikar, Nimbar (Hindi); Bili jali (Kannada); Velvaelam, Velvelam (Tamil); Tella tumma (Telugu); Arimedah (Sanskrit); Hivar (Marathi); Gohira (Oria); Chenkaringali, Vellavelam, Velvelakam, Velvelam, Pattacharayamaram (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in plains and hills up to 1000m.
• Key identification features : Bark whitish-grey smooth when young, dark brown blackish, rough when old, exfoliating in irregular scales, blaze light red. Inflorescence in terminal panicles. Bark is used in distiling local arack; also yeilds good fiber.
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district, Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Koraput district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Indo-China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais 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; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983) Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere
• 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 leucophloea. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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