- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Fabaceae
- Synonym(s) : Mimosa tortilis Forssk.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vachellia tortilis (Forssk.) Galasso & Banfi
- Common name : Umbrella thorn, Israeli Babool, Curly-pod acacia
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Tree
- Key identification features : Medium-sized evergreen tree or shrub that grows up to 21 m tall, spreading crown; Spines paired, 2 types-long, straight and white, or short, brownish and hooked; Leaves glabrous to densely pubescent, glandular, leaflets 4-22 pairs per pinnae, glabrous to densely pubescent on the underside; Inflorescence globose heads; Flowers white or pale yellowish-white, sessile or shortly pedicellate, scented; Pods variable, indehiscent, spirally twisted or rarely almost straight; seeds oblique or parallel to long axis of pod.
- Flower, Fruit : May- July
- Distribution :
- Native : Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gulf States, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, North
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gulf States, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Literature :
- Photographs of Dinesh Valke
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acacia tortilis. Downloaded on 15 October 2024.
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