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Family: Tiliaceae	Genus: Grewia	Species: Grewia tenax (Forssk.) Fiori( गोंदनी )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Chadara tenax Forssk.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Gondni	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	White Crossberry, Phalsa Cherry, Raisin bush	Flowering Period	July-Sept
Vernacular /Local Name	Gondni	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	Upto 1000m	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Drupe usually 2-4-lobed, lobes c. 5-7 mm in diameter, glabrous, rarely with sprinkled stellate hairs, orange yellow with red-dish tinge.
Habitat	Common in arid and semi-arid plains and hills	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Tropical and North Africa to Iran, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon).	Bark Details	Bark smooth, grey, very fibrous so that twigs are hard to break.
Distribution in Haryana	Morni-Pinjore	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	A suberect to erect shrub, up to 3 m tall. Stem with ash-grey bark, young twigs stellate hairy. Leaves 3-5-costate, almost glabrous to sparsely or densely stellate hairy on both sides, ovate-elliptic or obovate to almost orbicular, 0.6-4.5 cm long, 0.4-4 cm broad, sharply serrate, cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse, rarely emarginate at the apex; petiole 2-14 mm long, hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, caducous. Flowers solitary or rarely paired, on solitary, antiphyllous, (0.6-) 1.2 cm long, hairy peduncle, white, rarely yellowish-white, 2-2.5 cm across; pedicel c. half as long as peduncle, stellate tomentose. Drupe usually 2-4-lobed, lobes c. 5-7 mm in diameter, glabrous, rarely with sprinkled stellate hairs, orange yellow with red-dish tinge.	Leaf Details	Leaves 3-5-costate, almost glabrous to sparsely or densely stellate hairy on both sides, ovate-elliptic or obovate to almost orbicular, 0.6-4.5 cm long, 0.4-4 cm broad, sharply serrate, cuneate at the base, acute to obtuse, rarely emarginate at the apex; petiole 2-14 mm long, hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, caducous.

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