Grewia carpinifolia

Grewia carpinifolia is a thornless, deciduous climbing shrub.

The bark of Grewia carpinifolia is greenish and brown-coloured. It is longitudinally fissured and lenticellate.

The leaves of Grewia carpinifolia grow alternately on the stem.
The leaf is simple, bright green-coloured above and paler beneath. The leaf is chartaceous and glabrous on both sides.
The leaves have a 7-8 mm long petiole.
The leaf of Grewia carpinifolia is 8-10 cm long and 4-5 cm wide. The shape of the blade is ovate to lanceolate, the apex is acuminate, the base is rounded and the margins are finely crenate.
The venation of the leaf is reticulate with 3 prominent veins.

The flowers of Grewia carpinifolia are grouped in short axillary or terminal 2-3-flowered cymes (at the upper axils of the leaves). The peduncle is 1-1.5 cm long.
The calyx is composed of 5 sepals. The sepals are oblong, recurved, 1.5 cm long and 3-3.5 mm wide. They are white-coloured and glabrous within and greenish rusty-coloured and densely tomentose outside.
The corolla is composed of 5 white petals, greenish-coloured and ciliate at the base. The petals are lanceolate and acuminate, 8 mm long and 3 mm wide. 
The androecium is composed of numerous stamens. The filaments are thin and 6-8 mm long. The anthers are tiny (0.5 mm across) and globular.
The style is stout and 1 cm long with a capitate and 4-lobed stigma.
The ovary is globose, densely pubescent and 4-celled.
The buds are covered with short and rusty-coloured hairs.
The flowers are fragrant.
 

The fruit of Grewia carpinifolia is subglobose and obscurely 3 or 4 lobed drupe. The fruit is 1-1.5 cm across with a 1.5 cm peduncle. It is densely pubescent, greenish turning brown-coloured when ripe. The fruit usually contains 4 stones.

The seed of Grewia carpinifolia is enclosed into a 8 mm long and 4-5 mm wide stone. There are 4 stones per fruit.

Grewia carpinifolia is used in Siddha medicine.

The paste of leaves is applied in wounds and cuts.

Source : Quattrocchi, 2012, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants