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Grewia columnaris

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Name

Identification
Grewia columnaris Sm. [family TILIACEAE ] Grewia ferruginea Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rich, A.,
Related name
  • Grewia pilosa
  • Grewia grandifolia
  • Grewia ferruginea
  • Grewia carpinifolia
  • Grewia orientalis
  • Grewia columnaris
  • Grewia capitellata
  • Grewia emarginata
  • Grewia bracteata
  • Grewia malococca
  • Grewia trichocarpa
  • Grewia ritchiei
  • Grewia umbellifera

Flora

Entry for GREWIA columnaris Smith [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 columnaris Smith [family TILIACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 510.
Information
A shrub with slender, purplish, puberulous branches. Stipules subulate. Leafstalks 1/4 in. long, puberulous. Leaves oval, acute, subscabrous, crenate-serrate, lower serratures glandular, 3-costate, veins arcuate. Cymes stalked, extra-axillary and terminal. Peduncles two or three times longer than the leafstalks, dividing into 3–6 pedicels. Flower-buds subglobose. Sepals leathery, stellate-tomentose. Petals oblong, emarginate. Ovary villose. Fruit 4-lobed; lobes subglobular, the size of a small pea.
Range
Native also of the peninsula of India.
Distribution
East Tropical Africa Mozamb. Dist. Bojer!Mozamb. Dist. Mombas island, Bojer!
Notes
The African specimens of this species that have come under observation are imperfect, so that the character of the fruit has been described from Indian specimens.

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