- Family : TILIACEAE
(Linden Or Jute Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : FALSA FAMILY (फालसा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Malvaceae
- Synonym(s) : Grewia mallococa Blanco; Grewia multiflora Blanco; Grewia odorata Blume; Grewia ovalifolia Juss.; Grewia pedicellata Roxb.; Grewia racemosa Noronha; Grewia umbellata Roxb. ex DC.; Mallococca parva Blanco
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Grewia laevigata Vahl
- Common name : Two-Lobed Crossberry
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Shrub or Tree
- Habitat : Common, especially in open planes and often along Seashores.
- Key identification features : A small tree, bark light grey, cut fibrous, white with creamy streaks. Flowers yellow, 2-5 umbellate in the leaf axils. Drupe hard and shining, 1-4 lobed, the lobes the size of a pea.
- Flower, Fruit : June-March
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : All districts of Andhra Pradesh
- Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
- Karnataka : Mysuru district
- Kerala : Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kannur district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas Island, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Christmas Island, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Pullaiah and Chennaiah, 1997 Fl. Andhra Pradesh, Vol. 1. pp. 153
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 103
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Grewia laevigata. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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