| Distribution |
India, Sri Lanka and other countries in the Asian subcontinent |
Bark Details |
The bark is grayish-brown, wrinkled lengthwise, with ring-like elevations, interior yellowish-gray, porous, woody, coarsely fibrous |
| Distribution in Haryana |
Ambala, Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Kurukshetra, M. Garh, Mewat, Morni-Pinjore, Rewari, Yamuna Nagar |
Origin |
Native |
| Description of Species |
Climbing shrubs, thicket forming also dextrose climbers which grow annually from perennial rootstocks. Leaves simple, alternate, orbicular or reniform, peltate, base cordate, margin ciliate, entire, apex acuminate or obtuse with mucronate tip. Petiole usually as long or longer the leaf lamina, tomentose or glabrate. Inflorescences pendulous, sub corymbose cymes; Male flowers in cymose, green to yellow. Sepals 4-6, pilose above, free. Petals 4, connate into a cup, greenish, puberulous outside.Stamens 4, synandrium peltate, filaments connate into a column, anthers 4 on top. Female flowers racemed and crowded in the axils of leaf-like, ovate-orbicular, persistant, bracts.Sepals 1, obovate.Petal 0-1, obovate, base cuneate. Fruit drupes obovoid, red when ripe, aobut, style scar subbasal, curved endocarp horse shoe shaped, with 9-11 transverse ridges |
Leaf Details |
Leaves simple, alternate, orbicular or reniform, peltate, base cordate, margin ciliate, entire, apex acuminate or obtuse with mucronate tip. Petiole usually as long or longer the leaf lamina, tomentose or glabrate, about 3-12 cm long |
