• 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 lebbeck L.
• Synonym(s) : Acacia lebbeck (L.) Willd.; Acacia macrophylla Bunge; Acacia seeressa Roxb. ex Steud.; Acacia speciosa (Jacq.) Willd.; Albizia latifolia Boivin; Albizia speciosa (Jacq.) Benth.; Feuilleea lebbeck (L.) Kuntze; Inga borbonica Hassk.; Inga leucoxylon Hassk.; Mimosa flexuosa Rottler ex Wight & Arn.; Mimosa seeressa Steud.; Mimosa sirissa Roxb.; Mimosa speciosa Jacq.; Pithecellobium splitgerberianum Miq.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth.
• Common name : Siris Tree, East India walnut, Lebbek tree, Raom tree, Soros-tree, Womans tongue
• Vernacular name :
  • Vagai, Kona, Vagli (Tamil)
  • Dirisenamu, Dirasana, Dirisana (Telugu)
  • Siriso, Sirson, Tinia (Oria)
  • Ahirish (Marathi)
  • Nenmenivaka, Kattuvaka, Karivaka, Karimthakara, Vaka (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Scrub forests, roadsides, also in plains
• Comments / notes : On plains to 1200m. Often planted.
• Flower, Fruit : February-May
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy; Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 04-03-2009, 28-11-2014
• Collection Nos : FAP 36943; HJCB-E-0225
• Collection Locality : Mobbuchintalapalle, Kadapa district (AP); Tirumala to Alipiri Ghat road, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : West Bengal
  • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Delhi : Delhi
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Punjab : Punjab
  • Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
  • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Interview Island, North and Middle Andaman,Coco Island
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
  • Lakshadweep : Agatti Islands, Kavaratti Islands, Minicoy Islands
• Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Tropical & sub-tropical
• 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
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa 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
  • 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 – Flora of Hassan
  • Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
  • Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
  • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore
  • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
  • Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
  • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 161
  • C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
  • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 171
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Albizia lebbeck. Downloaded on 1 April 2025.

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