- 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 procera Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth.
- Common name : Hill Siris, White siris tree
- Vernacular name :
- Safed Siris (Hindi)
- Bili bage, Belati, Bilishirasi mara (Kannada)
- Velvagai, Kondavaghe (Tamil)
- Talla-chinduga, Pasaraganni (Telugu)
- Sarapatri, Serbi, Garkhair, Maranga, Satpuri, Tentra (Oria)
- Chalavaka, Kottavaga, Jalavaka, Vellavaka (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, along streams and sometimes planted
- Comments / notes : Hill forests
- Key identification features : Large deciduous tree; bark is whitish or grey marked with horizontal lines, often stained with brown, blaze red
- Flower, Fruit : April-December
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Planted
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Tirunelveli district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- 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, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar 2015. Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of Northern Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (8): 7443-7459
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Albizia procera. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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