Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Tiliaceae | Genus: Grewia | Species:
Grewia hirsuta Vahl. ( ककरन्दाह, कुकुरबीच, पहरोंगली ) |
Habit |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Grewia montana J.Koenig ex Wight & Arn., Grewia obliqua Juss., Grewia roxburghii G.Don | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Phrongli, Kukurbicha | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Veronicalolia | Flowering Period | July-Sept |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Kakarundah, Kukurbicha, Phrongli | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | upto 1000 m | Fruit Type | Drupe |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruit a drupes subglobose, obscurely 4-lobed, fleshy, wrinkled, densely hirsute or hispid. |
| Habitat | Fairly common in deciduous forests. | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Throughout India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Bark Details | Gray-brown bark with branchlets, coarsely hairy. |
| Distribution in Haryana | Morni-Pinjore | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | Shrub,up to 6 m high. Leaves ovate, lanceolate, or ovate-elliptic, subcordate or subobtuse at base, acute or acuminate or sometimes subobtuse, or rounded at apex, serrate, pubescent above, densely tomentose beneath. Flowers white in axillary umbellate cymes. Sepals elliptic-lanceolate, hirsute. Petals white, glands ca half the length of petals. Stamens numerous. Ovary globose, densely villous. Fruit a drupes subglobose, obscurely 4-lobed, fleshy, wrinkled, densely hirsute or hispid. | Leaf Details | Leaves ovate, lanceolate, or ovate-elliptic, subcordate or subobtuse at base, acute or acuminate or sometimes subobtuse, or rounded at apex, serrate, pubescent above, densely tomentose beneath. |
