• Family : TILIACEAE
  (Linden Or Jute Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : FALSA FAMILY (फालसा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Grewia ritchiei Mast.; Grewia umbellata Mast.; Grewia lawsoniana Drumm. ex Dunn
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Grewia heterotricha Mast.
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Krishna district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Australia
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Grewia heterotricha. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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