Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Phyllanthaceae | Genus: Flueggea | Species: Flueggea leucopyrus Willd. ( घट-बो ) |
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| Synonym | Securinega leucopyrus (Willd.) Müll.Arg. | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | Dalme, Hartho; Shinar, Ainta | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Bushweed, Cool pot, Indian snow berry, Thermacole plant, White honey shrub | Flowering Period | April-June |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Ghat-bor | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | Up to 500 m | Fruit Type | Capsule |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruits capsule, subglobose, white or brown when dry, unlobed, with prominent reticulate venation; seeds plano-convex, smooth, brown. |
| Habitat | Found in open forest areas and particular on dry rocky hill slopes and also found in waste land in dry areas. | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Sri Lanka, Pakistan (Sind), India (Punjab, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan). | Bark Details | Bark smooth, branches slender, angular, leafy, usually ending in sharp spines. |
| Distribution in Haryana | M. Garh, Rewari | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Obovate | ||
| Description of Species | A large, rigid somewhat straggling, shrub up to 1.5 m tall. Bark smooth, branches slender, angular, leafy, usually ending in sharp spines. Leaves obovate or obcordate or rotundate, glaucous. Male flowers in axillary, many-flowered clusters, greenish-white, fragrant; bracts reddish, minute, triangular, with minutely fimbriate margins; pedicles 2-5 mm long, filiform. Perianth lobes 5, white, unequal, obovate-oblong, concave, margins shortly toothed. Stamens 5, opposite the perianth lobes; anthers brown; glands 5, alternating with the stamens; pistillode usually 2, rarely 3-fid. Fruits capsule, subglobose, white or brown when dry, unlobed, with prominent reticulate venation; seeds plano-convex, smooth, brown. | Leaf Details | Leaves obovate or obcordate or rotundate, glaucous. |
