Grewia orientalis

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Grewia orientalis
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Grewioideae
Genus:	Grewia
Species:	G. orientalis
Binomial name
*Grewia orientalis* L.
Synonyms
Columbia serratifolia Blanco. (in review) Grewia columnaris Sm. (in review) Grewia furfuracea Salisb. (in review) Grewia orientalis Vahl. [Illegitimate] (in review) Grewia orientalis var. latifolia Benth.

Grewia orientalis is a species of flowering plant in the India and Sri Lanka.It is threatened by habitat loss.

Common names

Malayalam = Payippala, Kayyonnar

Others = Kayyonnar, Payippala

Sinhala = Wel keliya, Wel mediya

Tamil = Koditaviddai

Leaves - oval, rounded at base, blunty pointed apex, margins serrate to dentate, rough with stellate hair.

Trunk - much-branched, twiggy, young parts stellate pubescent.

Flowers - yellowish white, stellate tomentose pedicel; in axillary, or supraaxillary or oppositifolious umbellate cymes.

Fruit - dark yellow, subglobose, depressed, somewhat bristly, slightly 4-lobed fleshy drupe.

Monsoon forest understory, scrub

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