• Family : TILIACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Malvaceae
• Species : Grewia hirsuta
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Grewia hirsuta Vahl
• Common name : Bran Plant
• Vernacular name : Nagabala (San.)
• Collection Nos : KFP 2226, KFP 2444, CJS 14122
• Key identification features : A tomentose shrub. Leaves are simple obliquely elliptic-ovate,doubly serrate with scattered stellate hairs above and densely tomentose beneath the lamina. Flowers are in axillary cymes, polygamous. Petals are white, limbs are as long as or longer than glands. Stamens are about 40. Stigma of several finger-like structures. Fruit is a drupe and hairy.
• Habit : Shrub
• Native : Indian sub-continent
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Davanagere, Dharwad, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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