Law's Gooseberry is an erect, hairless shrub.
The slender branchlets are up to
12 cm long, 1-3 emerging from a point, with 2 small blunt spines. Leaves
are small 4-5 mm long, and 0.8-1 mm wide, closely spaced on the branchlets
so that they look like leaflets of a compound leaf. Leaves are linear-
oblong, with tip rounded or blunt, with a small sharp point. The base is
rounded or heart-shaped. Leaf stalks are negligibly small. Flowers are
small, occuring one to few, in fasciles in leaf axils. Flower stalks are
2 mm long. Petals (perianth lobes actually) are 6, in both male and
female, 2-3 mm long, white. Stamens are 3, with filaments united at base,
anthers erect. Fruit is spherical, 5 mm across, 3-valved. This fruit is
must smaller than the Amla fruit.
Flowering: September-November.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in I.I.Sc. Campus, Bangalore.
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