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Grewia Species: Diversity, Distribution, Traditional Knowledge and Utilization

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Grewia species (Tiliaceae) are medium-size shrub to small tree species and have multipurpose uses. Their fresh and dry fruits are utilized as food, leaves as forage for livestock and plant parts like fruit pulp and root bark are used to cure various ethnomedicinal and ethnoveterinary purposes. Due to their drought and salt tolerance ability, these species are abundantly distributed in arid and semiarid regions of world including India. Though they have multi-purpose utilization including medicinal values, only limited/scanty information are available on public domain on the aspects of systematic utilization and domestication. In this Chapter, the detailed informations about different Grewia species on the aspects of taxonomy, botanical description, distribution and diversity, traditional knowledge and its utilization potential were provided as ready reference in future use to different stakeholders like researchers, farmers and others.

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Dev, R., Kannan, V., Kumar, M.S., Dayal, D., Patel, R. (2019). Grewia Species: Diversity, Distribution, Traditional Knowledge and Utilization. In: Mariod, A. (eds) Wild Fruits: Composition, Nutritional Value and Products. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31885-7_31

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