• Family : MORACEAE
• 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 : Sakhotaka (San.); Sihora, Daheya (Hin.); Mitte mara, Penalige mara (Kan.)
• Collection Nos : CJS 16574, CJS 11005, KFP 6457
• 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
• Native : Sri Lanka, India
• Comments : Wood used for making of Cart-wheels; Leaves are rough, like sandpaper, used for polishing wooden articles and Ivory. Frequent in hedges and near villages.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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