• 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 pennata L.
• Synonym(s) : Acacia concinna Wall.; Acacia grahamii Vajr.; Acacia horrida Span.; Acacia pinnata Dalzell & A.Gibson; Acacia prensans Lowe; Acacia pterophylla Hoffmanns.; Inga tenerrima Jungh. ex Benth.; Mimosa ferruginea Rottler; Mimosa megalodena Poir.; Mimosa pennata L.; Sericandra pennata (L.) Raf.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Senegalia pennata (L.) Maslin
• Common name : Rusty Mimosa
• Vernacular name :
  • Biswal, Aila (Hindi)
  • Kaadu seege balli (Kannada)
  • Vellai indu (Tamil)
  • Karusikaya, Mullugorintha (Telugu)
  • Dantari, Nali konti, Duntari (Oria)
  • Valli khadira (Sanskrit)
  • Kakkinja, Kareencha, Kattusinikka, Karinja, Peincha (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Mixed forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : In foothills to 1200m. A ready colonizer.
• Key identification features : Prickles stout
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Collection Locality : Bhubaneswar, Khurda district
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Mandla district,Balaghat district, Hoshangabad district
  • West Bengal : Jalpaiguri, Purulia
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Bihar : Bihar
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Punjab : Punjab
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanamar.
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• 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
  • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
  • 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
  • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
  • Parthsarathy, N & Muthumperumal, C 2009. Check List 5(1): 092-111
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
  • Saldanha, 1984
  • Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
  • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 159
• 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=Acacia pennata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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