Entry for GREWIA monticola Sond. [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 223, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
GREWIA monticolaSond. [family TILIACEAE], in Linn. 23. p. 20
Information
twigs densely tomentose, with reddish, stellate hairs; leaves almost sessile, unequal-sided, half-cordate at base, oval-oblong, acute, unequally calloso-serrate, minutely pubescent or glabrate above, densely albo-tomentose below; peduncles axillary, forked, 2–3-flowered; fl.-buds globose, tomentose; sepals 3-nerved, longer than the petals; ovary villous; drupe didymous, shining, glabrous. A much branched, spreading shrub; all the younger parts clothed with rusty-red, stellate hairs. Readily known from G. discolor, which it much resembles, by the unequally sided leaves.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.)
