Grewia tiliifolia Vahl





Family: Malvaceae

Common names (English):

Dhaman    


Local name (Kannada):



Habit: Tree


Distribution: 

India to Indo-China and Malaysia 


Use: Medicinal

Description: 

Large trees, bark dark brown or greyish-brown, rough, vertically striated. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly ovate or obliquely ovate to round, margin double serrate or crenate-serrate, coriaceous; stipules 7-10 mm, lateral, auricled. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in axillary umbels. Sepals 5, pubescent. Petals 5, yellow. Stamens many, free, inserted on a glandular torus, gland densely villous on the margin. Fruit a drupe, 6-8 mm across