Albizia lebbeck (L.)Benth.

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Albizia lebbeck tree

Albizia lebbeck seeds

Albizia lebbeck ripe fruit

Albizia lebbeck leaf twig

Albizia lebbeck gland

Albizia lebbeck bark

Albizzia lebbek flower

🗒 Synonyms

synonym	Acacia lebbeck (L.)Willd.
synonym	Acacia lebbek (L.)Willd.
synonym	Acacia macrophylla Bunge
synonym	Acacia speciosa (Jacq.)Willd.
synonym	Albizia latifolia B.Boivin
synonym	Albizia lebbeck var. leucoxylon Hassk.
synonym	Albizia lebbeck var. pubescens Haines
synonym	Albizia lebbeck var. rostrata Haines
synonym	Albizia lebbek Sensu auct.
synonym	Feuilleea lebbeck (L.)Kuntze
synonym	Inga borbonica Hassk.
synonym	Inga leucoxylon Hassk.
synonym	Mimosa lebbeck L.
synonym	Mimosa lebbek L.
synonym	Mimosa sirissa Roxb.
synonym	Mimosa speciosa Jacq.
synonym	Pithecellobium splitgerberianum Miq.

🗒 Common Names

Assamese	Kothiya-koroi Sirish
English	Black Siris East Indian Walnut East India walnut Frywood Lebbek tree Raom tree Siris tree Soros-tree Womans tongue
Hin	Siris
Hindi	Siris
Irula	Vaagai
Kannada	Baage
Malayalam	Karimthakara Karivaka Kattuvaka Nenmenivaka Vaga Vaka
Other	East India Walnut Frywood Kalshish Khok (Manipuri) Lebbek Tree Saras सरस (Hindi) Sirin Siris Tree Tantia Tinia (Urdu) Vagai Vaga (Malayalam) Woman's Tongue சிரிடம் Siridam (Tamil)
Tamil	Vaagai Vagai

📚 Overview

Overview

Summary

Tree

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Brief

Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Tree

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Diagnostic

Diagnostic Keys

Description

Trunk cylindric with extensively spreading branches. Bark pale brown with irrgeular flakes, flowers yellow, fragrant.

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Deciduous trees; to 25 m high; bark 20-25 mm thick, surface yellowish-brown, rough, deeply fissured, exfoliating in irregular semi brittle scales; blaze pinkish-yellow. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipules small, free, lateral, cauducous; rachis 7-9 cm long, slender, grooved above, with a gland at its base, glabrous, pulvinate, pinnae 2-4 pairs, 5.5-12 cm long, slender, glabrous, opposite, even pinnate; leaflets 8-20, opposite, estipellate, even pinnate, petiolule to 1 mm long, a gland in between each leaflets; lamina 2.7-5 x 1-2.5 cm, obliquely oblong, base of one half cuneate, other round, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous above and slightly pubescent beneath, coriaceous; midrib towards distal margin, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, greenish-white, in subglobose heads, 3.5-3.7 cm long, solitary or 2-4 together in axillary corymbose racemes; peduncle 6-8 cm; bracts linear, cauducous; pedicels to 3 mm; calyx tube funnel-shaped pubescent, 3-4.5×1.5-3 mm, teeth triangular; corolla infundibuliform 7-10 mm long, greenish, lobes 5, lanceolate, pubescent without; stamens many, filament tube shorter than corolla tube, filaments long exserted, green or pink; anthers very small; ovary subsessile, glabrous, style 2.5 cm, filiform; stigma minute. Fruit a pod 20-30 x 4-5 cm, flat, oblong, compressed, straw coloured, base and apex obtuse, turgid above the seeded region; seeds 8-12, 6-10 x 5-8 mm, ovate, dull dark brown, flattened.

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Habit: A large deciduous tree with spreading crown, upto 15m.

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SubSpecies Varieties Races

Diagnostic Keys

Description

No Data

📚 Nomenclature and Classification

Nomenclature and Classification

Taxon Record Name

References

Type Information

No Data

📚 Natural History

Natural History

Life Cycle

Cyclicity

Leaf Fall

November--December

Flowering

April--May

Fruiting

December--January

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Flowering and fruiting: March-December

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Reproduction

Propagation Techniques

Soak seeds in boiled water for 24hrs, cool/ Soak seeds in cold water for 48hrs.

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Migration

Dispersal

Dispersers

Dispersers: Wind

Pollinators

Pollinators: Bee,Insect

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Life Expectancy

Size

Seed Size

1.2 cm.

Tree Height

12 m.

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Growth

High

Competitiveness

Poor

Where To Plant

Field border,Avenue

Growth Rate

fast growing

Drought Tolerance

Moderate

Drainage

Well

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Morphology

Growth Form

Tree

Tree Type

Deciduous

Canopy

Semi

Leaf Type

Kaggli like

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Flower

Solitary or in axillary umbellate clusters; greenish-white; fragrant. Flowering from February-April.

Fruit

A flat, compressed yellow pod, wavy along margin, strongly nerved; seeds 10 or more. Fruiting April onwards.

Field tips

Bark brownish-grey. Petiole eglandular, rachis with glands opposite to uppermost pinnae.

Leaf Arrangement

Alternate-distichous

Leaf Type

Bipinnate

Leaf Shape

Oblong-elliptic or obovate

Leaf Apex

Obtuse-retuse-apiculate

Leaf Base

Oblique-obtuse

Leaf Margin

Entire

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Pollinators

Bees

Miscellaneous Details

Interesting Facts

Used as a shade tree in coffee and tea plantations.

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Used for building and agricultural purposes.

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📚 Habitat and Distribution

Habitat and Distribution

General Habitat

Dry deciduous forests, along hill sides

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Deciduous forests, also in the plains

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Plains from the coast to 1200 m, often planted. A native of tropical Himalaya, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, and South China.

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Distribution

Description

Global Distribution

India: Andaman & Nicobar Island, Andhra Pradesh Assam, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

Indian Distribution

Throughout Assam

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Throughout India, except Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim.

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Global Distribution

Indo-Malesia and South China

Indian distribution

State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts

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Found in deciduous tracts from plains to 1200m, often planted as an avenue tree. Common. India, Sri Lanka, S.E.Asia, S.China, S Africa and Caribbean Islands.

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Endemic Distribution

Nativity

Native

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📚 Occurrence

Occurrence

No Data

📚 Demography and Conservation

Demography and Conservation

Not Evaluated

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Threats

Legislation

Protection Legal Status

No Data

📚 Uses and Management

Uses and Management

Uses

System of Medicines Used In

Ayurveda

Folk medicine

Siddha

Unani

Medicinal :

Medicinal : Bark,Leaf,Seed

Food:

Food: Inedible

Fodder:

Fodder: goat,cattle,sheep

Fuelwood:

Good fuelwood

Pest Management:

Pest management: Leaf,Seed

Services And Uses

Nitrogen fixing, Wind break, Nectar source, Green manure, Timber, Implements, Tanning and dyeing

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Medicinal

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Nesting site for the rock bee Apis dorsata. Elephants eat the leaves. The wood is used for religious and sacrificial fires. The bark in combination with four other barks is used to make a medicine for fever. Mostly found as a solitary tree not in groves.

Wood hard and useful for construction, furniture and agricultural implements. The bark is used as a medicine to treat inflammation.

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System Of Medicines Used In

Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha

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Folklore

The stem used in rituals. Wood is used for house construction and also fuel wood. Honey bees forage on the flowers.

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Management

No Data

📚 Information Listing

Information Listing

Species Resources

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN)

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

References

Mimosa lebbeck L., Sp.Pl.516. 1753.
Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth. in Hook.'s London J. Bot. 3: 87. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 298. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 432(306). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 167. 1984; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 170. 1988; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 56. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 173. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 125. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 168. 1996; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 589. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 126. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 120. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 111. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 203. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 266. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 336. 2009.
Mimosa sirissa Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 544. 1832.

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=96

Information Listing > References

Mimosa lebbeck L., Sp.Pl.516. 1753.
Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth. in Hook.'s London J. Bot. 3: 87. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 298. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 432(306). 1919; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 167. 1984; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 170. 1988; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 56. 1992; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 173. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 125. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 17. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 168. 1996; Chakrab. & Gangop., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 20: 589. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 126. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 120. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 111. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 203. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 266. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 336. 2009.
Mimosa sirissa Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 544. 1832.
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=96

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