• Family : Boraginaceae
  (Forget-Me-Not Or Borage Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : LASORA FAMILY (लसोड़ा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Boraginaceae
• Basionym : Gerascanthus vestitus (Hook.f. & Thomson) Borhidi
• Synonym(s) : Cordia incana Royle; Gynaion vestitum A.DC.; Lithocardium vestitum Kuntze
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cordia vestita (A.DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson
• Common name : Bairola
• Vernacular name : Bairola, Bateuta, Baurala, Kum, Kumbhi (Hindi); Kaadu Kandale, Kempu Challe (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Not common and apparently cultivated.
• Key identification features : A deciduous polygamous tree with densely tomentose branchlets. Leaves 7-12 x 4.5-12 cm, broadly ovate to obovate, obtuse or acute, base truncate or cuneate, margin undulate. Upper surface scabrid and darker in colour, lower dense grey-white tomentose. Petiole up to 3.5 cm long. Flowers in dense cymes, yellowish-white. Pedicel 8-15 mm, tomentose. Calyx 8-15 mm long, 5-lobed, ribbed, tomentose on the outside. Corolla tube equalling calyx, hairy within. Limb 11-12 mm broad; lobes 5, obtuse-crenulate, filaments hairy at base. Drupe 15-17 mm long, ellipsoid.
• Flower, Fruit : March-April
• Distribution :
  • Himachal Pradesh : Hamirpur district
• Native : India, Pakistan, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Photographs of Ashuthosh Sharma
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Cordia vestita. Downloaded on 1 December 2023.

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