• Family : RHAMNACEAE
  (Buckthorn Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BER FAMILY (बेर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RHAMNACEAE
• Basionym : Rhamnus filiformis Roth
• Synonym(s) : Sageretia parviflora (Klein) G. Don; Rhamnus parviflora Klein & Willd. ex Schult.; Sageretia oppositifolia Brongn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sageretia filiformis (Roth) G. Don
• Vernacular name : Siru silaa (Tamil)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Occasional in Evergreen forests.
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 1400m on shola trees.
• Flower, Fruit : September-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Maharashtra : Konkan
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : Himalayas, India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Sageretia filiformis. Downloaded on 7 May 2024.

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