• 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 nilotica L.
• Synonym(s) : Acacia arabica Hook.f. non (Lam.) Willd. 1808.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile
• Common name : Babul tree, Black babool, Indian gum arabic tree
• Vernacular name : Babul, Jali, Karijali (Hindi); Gobbalimara (Kannada); Karivelum, Karuvelakam, Babool (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Introduced and planted
• Comments / notes : Common in most of the Northern Karnataka and sometimes also planted for its timber and 'gum arabic'. Bark and pods also used for tanning.
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district
• World Distribution : North India to North Africa through West Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 nilotica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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