Grewia coriaceaMast. [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Odewo, T.K, 1979
Related name
Grewia barberi
Grewia not on sheet
Grewia multiflora
Grewia coriacea
Grewia microcos
Common name
arbre à briquet., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
akenden (Cameroon)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
unwẹrhín-ọ́tán-ẹ́gbó (Lowe) uwenriotegbo (auctt.) (NIGERIA, EDO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
mudìnggẹ̀ mundẹ̀nẹ̀ (Ittmann) (WEST CAMEROONS, DUALA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
Flora
Entry for GREWIA coriacea Mast. [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 240, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
GREWIA coriaceaMast. [family TILIACEAE]
Information
A shrub or small tree with smooth purplish branches. Stipules deciduous. Petioles scarcely an inch in length. Leaves 5–6 in. long, elliptical, acuminate, entire, coriaceous, 3-costate, arcuate-venose, smooth. Flowers numerous, in axillary and terminal, much-branched cymes. Peduncles half the length of the leaves. Pedicels 1 in. long, densely covered, like the common stalk, with close reddish down. Flower-buds oblong, obtuse. Sepals slightly hooded at the apex, pitted on the inner surface. Petals broadly ovate, glandular beneath, much shorter than the sepals. Stamens indefinite, arising from an urceolate 5-lobed, villose torus. Ovary 2–3–∞-celled, with numerous ovules attached in a double row to the inner angle of each cell. Fruit…