Haryana Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Haryana (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre,Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Rubiaceae | Genus: Morinda | Species: Morinda citrifolia Linn.( नोनी, बरतुंडी ) |
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| Synonym | Morinda tomentosa B. Heyne ex Roth., Morinda chachuca Buch.-Ham. | Flower Color | White |
| Common Name | Bartundi, Cheese fruit, Noni. | Flower Type | Cyme |
| English / Trade Name | Indian Mulberry, Great morinda, Cheese fruit. | Flowering Period | Jan-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Noni , Bartundi | Fruiting Period | Jan-Dec |
| Altitude | upto 100 m | Fruit Type | Multiple |
| Habit | Tree | Fruit Details | Fruit schizocarpic (multiple fruit) with a pungent odor when ripening, at first green, the fruit turns yellow then almost white as it ripens. |
| Habitat | Flat land on seashores, sparse forests. | Bark Type | Fissured |
| Distribution | Found in Southeast, throughout India and into the Pacific islands as far as the islands of French Polynesian. It is also found in some parts of the West Indies. | Bark Details | Bark pale greyish-brown, shallowly fissured. |
| Distribution in Haryana | , Morni-Pinjore | Origin | Native |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Ovate | ||
| Description of Species | Shrub or small tree, up to 9 m tall. Leaves simple, opposite or solitary opposite an inflorescence; petiole glabrous; blade fleshy, drying papery, elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or ovate, glabrous and shiny on both surfaces, base acute or acuminate, apex acute to obtuse; stipules interpetiolar, free or shortly fused to petioles, broadly triangular to ovate, obtuse or rounded. Flower cymose (hypanthia partially fused) distylous, calyx glabrous or puberulent; limb subtruncate to truncate, flowers of a head with 1(-3) calycophylls, white, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate; corolla white, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube densely villous in throat; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate. Fruit Schizocarpic (multiple fruit) with a pungent odor when ripening, at first green, the fruit turns yellow then almost white as it ripens. | Leaf Details | Leaves simple, opposite or solitary opposite an inflorescence; petiole glabrous; blade fleshy, drying papery, elliptic-oblong, elliptic, or ovate, glabrous and shiny on both surfaces, base acute or acuminate, apex acute to obtuse; stipules interpetiolar, free or shortly fused to petioles, broadly triangular to ovate, obtuse or rounded. |
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