Herbarium JCB

Acacia polyacantha Willd.

Family : MIMOSACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
Family (Hindi name) : BABOOL FAMILY (बबूल फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
Subfamily : Mimosoideae
Synonym(s) : Mimosa suma Roxb.; Acacia suma (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. ex J. Voigt
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acacia polyacantha Willd.
Common name : White Cutch tree, White catechu
Vernacular name : Swetakhair (Hindi); Muguli (Kannada); Kovaalai mullu maram (Tamil); Tellachandra, Tellasundra (Telugu); Gonhareu, Somi (Oria); Kadarah (Sanskrit); Sonkhairi (Marathi); Venkaringali, Somarayatholi (Malayalam)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
Comments / notes : In foothills to 900m. Bark used for tannin
Key identification features : Bark white or greyish smooth peeling off in small papery flaks, marked at intervels by horizontal patches of darker colour; flowers white
Flower, Fruit : February-October
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Belagavi district, Bidar district, Chitradurga district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Palakkad district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Puri district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, introduced in Caribbean
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
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 polyacantha. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.