Tree
Albizia procera (Roxb.)Benth.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Acacia elata Voigt |
synonym | Acacia procera (Roxb.)Willd. |
synonym | Acacia procera var. elata (Roxb.)Baker |
synonym | Acacia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn. |
synonym | Albizia procera var. elata (Roxb.)Baker |
synonym | Albizia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn. |
synonym | Feuilleea procera (Roxb.)Kuntze |
synonym | Lignum murinum-majus Rumph. |
synonym | Mimosa coriaria Blanco |
synonym | Mimosa elata Roxb. |
synonym | Mimosa procera Roxb. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Tree
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Deciduous trees; to 30 m high; bark 10-15 mm, thick, surface greenish-yellow, smooth, exfoliation small, irregular; blaze red; branchlets brownish to blackish or yellowish, terete, 3-13 mm thick, silky pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral; rachis 13-30 cm long, slender, pulvinate, puberulous, with a prominent gland near its base; pinnae 2-5 (6) pairs, 9.7-27 cm long, slender, evenly pinnate, opposite, puberulous; leaflets 4-20, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, petiolule 2-3 mm long; lamina 2.5-5 x 1.8-3 cm, obliquely oblong, obliquely ovate or obliquely oblong-ovate, base unequal, round on the upper side of the midrib and acute on the lower side, apex round or subacute, margin entire, glabrous above, white pilose beneath, with a gland between terminal pairs of leaflets, subcoriaceous, midrib subcentral, slightly towards the distal margin; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, in globose heads, forming axillary or terminal panicles; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 2.5-3 x 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, teeth triangular; corolla 5-7 mm long, 5-lobed; lobes oblong-elliptic, puberulous towards apex; stamens many, 8-12 mm long, monadelphous at base, tube longer than the corolla tube; ovary oblong, stipitate, glabrous, style filiform; stigma terminal. Fruit a pod 10-20 x 1.8-2.5 cm, strap-shaped, flat, thin walled, rostrate at apex, glabrous, often glossy, faintly reticulately veined, black, brown or yellow when dry, stalk very short; seeds 5-12, ovate-elliptic, compressed, greenish-brown.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Deciduous Forests along streams
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Semi-evergreen forests
Moist deciduous forests and also in the plains
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
India: Andaman & Nicobar Island, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh
Indian Distribution
Throughout Assam
Maharashtra: Nasik, Pune, Raigad
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
Indo-Malesia and China
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Malappuram, Wayanad, Kollam
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=102
Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=102 |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=102
- Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- Mimosa procera Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 121. 1798.
- Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. in Hook.'s London J. Bot. 3: 89. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 299. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 431(306). 1919; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 93. 1988; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 58. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 174. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 169. 1996; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 594. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 111. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 337. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=102
- Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
- Mimosa procera Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 121. 1798.
- Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. in Hook.'s London J. Bot. 3: 89. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 299. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 431(306). 1919; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 93. 1988; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 58. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 174. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 169. 1996; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 594. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 111. 2002; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 337. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Fabales |
Family | Fabaceae |
Genus | Albizia |
Species | Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. |
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