- 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
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam : Assam
- World Distribution : India, Andamans (India), Myanmar, Malesia, China
- 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 15 May 2024.
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