Gangeti / Mallow Raisin
Grewia villosa
Also known as Mallow-Leaved Crossberry
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Gangeti
Identify Gangeti by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Densely woolly (villous) leaves.
- Confirm leaf shape: Cordate.
- Confirm leaf margin: Toothed.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Grewia villosa
- Genus
- Grewia
- Family
- Tiliaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Occasional in scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests along the Ghats in the east and west of the peninsula up to 650m. Also along river banks
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- CordaterecordedHeart-shaped, with a notch at the base.“Leaves are fairly large, serrated and heart-shaped.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf margin
- ToothedrecordedA saw-like or jagged edge (serrate or dentate).“Leaves are fairly large, serrated and heart-shaped.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gangeti itself; the rest are typical of the Tiliaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gangeti itself; the rest are typical of the Tiliaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Baliogangarin, गंगेटी Gangeti, Lankas
- Tamil
- kullai
- Kannada
- ಕರಕೆಲೆ Karakele, ಮುರಿಕೆ Murike, ಮುರಿಗೆ Murige
- Marathi
- kharmati
About Gangeti
Mallow raisin (Grewia villosa) is a tree in the Tiliaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan and 4 other states. It grows in occasional in scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests along the Ghats in the east and west of the peninsula up to 650m. Also along river banks. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Tiliaceae
Lime tree/Jute family
Gangeti belongs to the Tiliaceae family.
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