Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Albizia amara
Scientific Name and Description
Albizia amara (ROXB.) BOIVIN
Herb Family
Plant type
Tree
Plant Synonyms
Plant Synonyms
Acacia wightii Wight & Arn
Mimosa amara Roxb.
Mimosa pulchella Roxb.
Acacia nellyrenza Wight & Arn.
Acacia amara Willd.
Mimosa amara Roxb.
Mimosa pulchella Roxb.
Acacia nellyrenza Wight & Arn.
Acacia amara Willd.
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| Kannada | balukambi, beelkambi, belkambi, belkhaambi, belkhambi, bilatti, bilkambi, chigare, chigari, chiguru, chugalu, chujjallu, chujjalu, cigiriya, kadshige, kadu seege, kadusige, ruggli, seejali, sujil, sujjali, sujjallu, sujjalu, thungli, tuggali, tugli |
| Malayalam | chalavagai, cholaivagai, culivaka, dosulay, oosulay, sulivaka, varacchi, varachi, varasi |
| Marathi | lali, lalisurangi, lulai, lullei, thugli |
| Sanskrit | krishnasirish, krishnasirisha |
| Tamil | arappu, arappumaram, cikkiram, cikkiran, cikkiranmaram, cikkiriyan, cikkuran, curanci, iruvaccita, kalikai, kanukkari, kanukkarimaram, karuvaagai, karuvatai, munnam, oonjal, sayalvagai, sikkram, sikkri, thuringi, thurinji, turincalmaram, turinci,turincilmaram, turinjil, ucal, ucalam, ucila maram, ucilam, ucilamaram, ucilampattai, udu, uncalmaram, uncamaram, uncil, unjai, unjal, unjil, urincumaram, ushil, ushilai, ushilam, usil, usila maram, usilam, usilamaram, utu, utuci, utucimaram, utumpai, utuppai, uva ver, uvappattai, wunja |
| Telugu | chigara, chikkareni, chikondi, chikreni, konda chigara, nalla regi, nallangi, nallaregu, nallarenga, narlingi, seekireni, shekrani, sigara, sirikenu |
| Common Names | Bitter Albizia, Chittagong wood |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Ayurved
Siddha
Folk
Herb usable parts
Bark
Leaves
Ethnopharmacology use
Albizia amara (Roxb.) B. Boivin
Habit - Tree
Parts used - Leaves, bark
Application - Externally affected areas; dandruff; For hair growth; Cuts and burns; fire wood
Treatment - General
References - Arjunan et al. 2016, Dey and De 2012, Pradheeps and Poyyamoli 2013
References
Literature
Literature
Arjunan et al. 2016
Dey and De 2012,
Pradheeps and Poyyamoli 2013
Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I Author - D.M.Verma, N.P.Balakrishnan, R.D.Dixit
The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar Author - P. Daniel & P. Umamaheswari
Flora of Maharashrta State (Dicotyledons) Volume 1 Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna
The Flora of Orissa Volume 1 Author - H. O. Saxena, M. Brahmam
Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1 Author - G.L.Shah
FLORA OF KARNATAKA VOL-1 Author - C.J. SALDHANA.
THE FLORA OF THE TAMILNADU CARNATIC-VOL I Author - K.M. MATTHEW
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
Citations
Herb citations
Albizia amara. (2024, June 1). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albizia_amara