Herbarium JCB

Streblus asper Lour.

Family : MORACEAE
(MULBERRY FAMILY OR FIG FAMILY)
Family (as per The Plant List) : Moraceae
Species : Streblus asper
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Streblus asper Lour.
Common name : Siamese Roughbush
Vernacular name : Sihora, Daheya, Sora, Karchanua, Rusa, Daheya (Hin.); Mitte mara, Penalige mara (Kan.); Kuttipila, Purramaram (Tam.); Barnika (Tel.); Sara, Sahuda, Sahada (Ori.); Sakhotaka (San.)
Key identification features : A small semi-evergreen tree with latex, rather rigid branches and numerous interwoven pubescent branchlets. Leaves are simple, alternate, shortly stalked, elliptic, ovate to rhomboid and harshly rough on both sides with minutely toothed margin. Flowers are small, inconspicuous, yellowish green. Male and female flowers appearing on separate trees (sometimes on the same). Fruit is a small berry, pale yellow or orange when ripe with sweet edible pulp. Bark is very fibrous, laticiferous, lenticellate, pale grey or whitish and becoming rough with age.
Habit : Tree
Flower, Fruit : Throughout the Year
Comments : On plains to 1000 m in open forests, scrub jungles near streams and in wastelands.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
World Distribution : India including Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Hainan, Thailand, Malesia
Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Streblus asper. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.