- 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 torta Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Acacia caesia Wight & Arn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Senegalia torta (Roxb.) Maslin, Seigler & Ebinger
- Vernacular name :
- Seengaikkodi, Ingi (Tamil)
- Dantari, Konti, Chil (Oria)
- Anthochini, Kallinja, Pattincha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Rambling shrub
- Habitat : Mixed, deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : In hills to 1000m.
- Key identification features : Large prickly Climbing shrub
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Kurnool district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Bargarh district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Sambalpur district, Angul district
- Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bhutan, India, Pakistan
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bhutan, India, Pakistan
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- 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
- 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
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Pullaiah and Chennaiah, 1997 Fl. Andhra Pradesh, Vol. 1. pp. 356.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acacia torta. Downloaded on 7 December 2024.
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