- 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 bigemina L.
- Synonym(s) : Mimosa bigemina (L.) Neilson; Pithecellobium bigeminum (L.) Mart.; Pithecellobium monadelphum (Roxb.) Kosterm.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Archidendron bigeminum (L.)I.C.Nielsen
- Vernacular name :
- Kaadu konde mara (Kannada)
- Kattukonna, Muthakolappan, Pannivaka, Varikiri, Atthaperantha (Malayalam)
- Kalpakku (Tamil)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Frequent in semi-evergreen to wet deciduous forests of Western Ghats.
- Key identification features : An unarmed tree, leaves bipinnate, petiole 3-4 cm long with gland above the middle, pinnae 1-2 pairs, up to 15 cm long, glands between all leaflets, leaflets 3-4 pairs, 15cm long, 5 cm broad, flowers white, pod circinate, brown outside, orange red within
- Flower, Fruit : January-July
- Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy; T.P.Ramamoorthy, K.N.Gandhi
- Collection Nos : KFP 6584, KFP 6850, HFP 248, HFP 2671
- Collection Locality : Shiradi border (Hassan)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Darjeeling
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Archidendron monadelphum. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.
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