- 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 caesia L.
- Synonym(s) : Acacia intsia Willd. var. caesia (L.) Baker; Acacia columnaris Craib.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Senegalia caesia (L.) Maslin, Seigler & Ebinger
- Common name : Black Catechu, Soap bark
- Vernacular name :
- Aila, Nikuncam (Hindi)
- Kadu seege (Kannada)
- Kari indu, Karinda (Tamil)
- Korinta, Kondakorinda, Yerracheeki (Telugu)
- Dentari (Oria)
- Nikunjika (Sanskrit)
- Eenga, Eenja, Incha, Palinja, Velutha-incha (Malayalam)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : River banks, wasteland, scrub jungles and along hill slopes. Foot hills of Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : In plains to 1000m. Common
- Key identification features : Prickles large; coppery pods turning brown; Woody, armed shrubs; Leaflets 40-50, thinly membranous, sharply acute; Flowers creamy white in globose heads; Pods dark brown, glabrous
- Flower, Fruit : June-April
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, SHM, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Gajapati district, Salur-Koraput Ghat (Koraput district), Mayurbhanj district, Cuttack district, Angul district, Dhenkanal district, Puri district, Ganjam district, Khurda district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Burdwan, Hooghly, Jalpaiguri, Purulia, 24-Parganas
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Dibang valley, Siang, Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, 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
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam 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
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha, 1984
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
- P.K . Hajra ., D.M. Verma and G.S. Giri (1996). Materials For The Flora Of Arunachal Pradesh , Vol (1), Pg : 433
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acacia caesia. Downloaded on 27 July 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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