Bander-Ki-Rakhi / Hooked Mimosa
Mimosa hamata
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- June-December
How to identify Bander-Ki-Rakhi
Identify Bander-Ki-Rakhi by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Hooked recurved thorns.
- Confirm leaf shape: Feathery bipinnate leaflets.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: June-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Mimosaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Bander-Ki-Rakhi.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mimosa hamata
- Genus
- Mimosa
- Family
- Mimosaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Scrub jungles
- Habitat type
- Scrub
- Native to
- S. America
- Distribution
- Tropics
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka
- Flowering & fruiting
- June-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Feathery bipinnate leafletsrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bander-Ki-Rakhi itself; the rest are typical of the Mimosaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Legume
Typical of the Mimosaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Mundi, बंदर की राखी Bander-ki-Rakhi, स्याह कांटा Siah-kanta
- Tamil
- Intiri
- Telugu
- Undrakampa, Vundra, Wundra
- Marathi
- गुलाबी बबूल Gulabi babul
About Bander-Ki-Rakhi
A member of the Mimosaceae family, Hooked Mimosa (Mimosa hamata) is a shrub. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Telangana and 4 other states. It grows in scrub jungles. Flowering and fruiting run from June to December.
Mimosaceae
Mimosa/Acacia family
Bander-Ki-Rakhi belongs to the Mimosaceae family.
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