Premna barbata Wall. ex Schauer

Rare and undercollected in our area, sometimes planted. Wood is used as fuel due to its hardness.

A similar taxon, Premna latifolia Roxb. var. mucronate (Roxb.) Clarke (in Hook. f., l.c. 578), with leaves drying blackish and calyx 5-toothed, much enlarged in fruit, occurring in the same range as this species, has been reported by Parker (l.c.).

Erect shrubs, sometimes reaching the size of a small tree, 2-5 (-8) m tall, deciduous, with grey bark. Leaves (4-)5-15(-18) cm long, (2-) 2.5-10 cm broad, ovate, acuminate, obscurely toothed, drying green, glabrescent above, minutely villous beneath, with 4-6 prais of lateral veins; petiole (5-)10-20(-25) mm long. Panicles terminal, trichotomous, vinous, short, not exceeding the leaves, 3-6 cm across. Flowers c. 3 mm across, greenish; bracts small, linear, deciduous. Calyx c. 2 mm long, subequally 4-lobed, hardly or not enlarged in fruit but persistent. Corolla 3-4 mm long, sub-bilabiate with 4, short, spreading lobes, tube c. as long as the calyx, hairy in the throat. Drupe 4-5 mm in diameter, globose or somewhat obovoid, glabrous, somewhat verrucose.

Distribution: Sub-Himalayan tracts, India. Pakistan, Bhutan and Bangla Desh.

Fl. Per.: April-May.

गिनेरी

गिनेरी (अङ्ग्रेजी: Premna Barbata) प्रेम्ना वर्ग ल्यामिसिया परिवारमा पर्ने वनस्पति हो ।

Premna barbata (Nepali: गिनेरी) is a plant species in the genus Premna (family Lamiaceae), first described in 1847. It is native to Myanmar and to the Indian Subcontinent.

Premna barbata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được Wall. ex Schauer miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1847.