• 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 odoratissima L.f.
• Synonym(s) : Acacia odoratissima (L.f.) Willd.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Albizia odoratissima (L.f.) Benth.
• Common name : Black Siris, Kala siris, Ceylon rosewood
• Vernacular name :
  • Kala siris (Hindi)
  • Kadu bage (Kannada)
  • Karuvagai, Poovusalai (Tamil)
  • Chinduga, Ganara (Telugu)
  • Kala siriso, Sirish, Tinia, Sarsi tentura (Oria)
  • Bhusirisah (Sanskrit)
  • Kalasiras (Marathi)
  • Karivaka, Karinthakara, Kunnivaka, Mellivaka, Nellivaga, Pulivaka (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional in foothills to 1300m.
• Key identification features : Flowers fragrant
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, Navendu Page, K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0624
• Collection Locality : Yercaud-Salem Ghat road, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Davanagare district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : Bankura, Jalpaiguri, Midnapur
  • Himachal Pradesh : Mandi district
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Delhi : Delhi
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
• 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
  • Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
  • Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
  • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
  • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
  • 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 odoratissima. Downloaded on 1 April 2025.

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