Grewia tiliifolia Vahl
Family: Malvaceae
Common names (English):
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.