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Small-leaf White Raisin

Grewia tenax

IUCN: Least Concern
Small-leaf White Raisin (Grewia tenax) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Grewia tenax
Family
Malvaceae, order Malvales
Group
Plant
Conservation status
Least Concern

A desert shrub with little sweet berries.

  • Spot it Thorny stems, small leaves and tiny yellow flowers.
  • Home Dry scrub and deserts.
  • Food web Bees visit the flowers; birds eat the berries.
  • Why it matters Its berries feed birds and people, its flowers feed bees, and its thorny shrub shelters small animals and holds dry soil.

Read more: Grewia tenax on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 2 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2008 and 2009, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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