See Taxonomy Albizia lebbeck is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar.

Common names in English include siris, Indian siris, East Indian walnut, Broome raintree, lebbeck, lebbek tree, frywood, koko and woman's tongue tree.

[7] Mimosa speciosa as described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin refers to Albizia lebbeck.

[13] This information was obtained via ethnobotanical records, which are a reference to how a plant is used by indigenous peoples, not verifiable, scientific or medical evaluation of the effectiveness of these claims.

In its original description the Mimosa lebbeck was a large Acacia tree that grew in Egypt.

[15] George Bentham placed the species in its present genus, but other authors believed that the plant described by Linnaeus was the related Albizia kalkora as described by Prain (based on the Mimosa kalkora of William Roxburgh), and erroneously referred to this species as Albizia lebbeck.

However, Francisco Manuel Blanco used Mimosa lebbeck to refer to Albizia retusa ssp.

[16] Junior synonyms are:[9] Independently, there also exists a genus named Lebeckia, whose range is restricted to South Africa.