Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Rutaceae | Genus: Naringi | Species: Naringi crenulata (Roxb.) D.H. Nicolson ( बेली ) |
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| Synonym | Limonia crenulata Roxb., Hesperethusa crenulata (Roxb.) Roem. | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Bilan, | Flower Type | Solitary |
| English / Trade Name | Flowering Period | April-June | |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Beli | Fruiting Period | July-Sept |
| Altitude | Up to 1300m | Fruit Type | Berry |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit a berry, subglobose, bluish-black, glandular; seeds 1-4, dull yellow, smooth. |
| Habitat | Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Indo-Malesia | Bark Details | Bark yellowish-grey, smooth, corky |
| Distribution in Haryana | Morni-Pinjore, Yamuna Nagar | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Compound | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Pinnate | ||
| Description of Species | Trees, up to 10 m, armed with sharp solitary or paired axillary spines; bark yellowish-grey, smooth, corky; blaze yellow; branchlets angled, glabrous. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 2.5-10 cm long, winged, wings obovate-oblong, glabrous, punctate; leaflets 3-7, opposite, sessile, estipellate, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, base acute or obliquely acute, apex obtuse to emarginate, margin crenate, glabrous, profusely pellucid-gland dotted; glands dimorphic; coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, white, in few flowered axillary racemes; sepals 4, free or united at base, ovate-orbicular, glandular; petals 4, free, elliptic or oblong, white, glandular, glabrous; stamens 8, subequal, free, inserted round the disc; filaments subulate; anthers yellow, apiculate, disc thin, glandular; ovary superior, globose, 4-celled, glabrous, glandular, ovule 1 in each cell.; style stout; stigma capitate; Fruit a berry, 6-8 mm across, subglobose, bluish-black, glandular; seeds 1-4, dull yellow, smooth. | Leaf Details | Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; winged, wings obovate-oblong, glabrous, punctate; leaflets 3-7, opposite, sessile, estipellate; elliptic or elliptic-obovate, base acute or obliquely acute, apex obtuse to emarginate, margin crenate, glabrous, profusely pellucid-gland dotted; glands dimorphic; coriaceous; lateral nerves 4-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. |
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