Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Tiliaceae | Genus: Grewia | Species: Grewia tenax (Forssk.) Fiori |
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| Synonym | Flower Color | White | |
| Common Name | Gondni | Flower Type | Solitary |
| English / Trade Name | White Crossberry, Phalsa Cherry, Raisin bush | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Gungaran | Fruiting Period | Oct-Dec |
| Altitude | Upto 1000m | Fruit Type | Drupe |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Drupe usually 2-4-lobed, lobes c. 5-7 mm in diameter, glabrous, rarely with sprinkled stellate hairs, orange yellow with red-dish tinge. |
| Habitat | Common in arid and semi-arid plains and hills | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Tropical and North Africa to Iran, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon). | Bark Details | Bark smooth, grey, very fibrous so that twigs are hard to break. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | A suberect to erect shrub, up to 3 m tall. Stem with ash-grey bark, young twigs stellate hairy. Leaves 3-5-costate, almost glabrous to sparsely or densely stellate hairy on both sides, ovate-elliptic or obovate to almost orbicular, 0.6-4.5 cm long, 0.4-4 cm broad, sharply serrate, cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse, rarely emarginate at the apex; petiole 2-14 mm long, hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, caducous. Flowers solitary or rarely paired, on solitary, antiphyllous, (0.6-) 1.2 cm long, hairy peduncle, white, rarely yellowish-white, 2-2.5 cm across; pedicel c. half as long as peduncle, stellate tomentose. Drupe usually 2-4-lobed, lobes c. 5-7 mm in diameter, glabrous, rarely with sprinkled stellate hairs, orange yellow with red-dish tinge. | Leaf Details | Leaves 3-5-costate, almost glabrous to sparsely or densely stellate hairy on both sides, ovate-elliptic or obovate to almost orbicular, 0.6-4.5 cm long, 0.4-4 cm broad, sharply serrate, cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse, rarely emarginate at the apex; petiole 2-14 mm long, hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, caducous. |
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