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Grewia ferruginea

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Name

Identification
Grewia ferruginea A.Rich. [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Grewia ferruginea A.Rich. [family TILIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Grewia carpinifolia
  • Grewia columnaris
  • Grewia megalocarpa
  • Grewia corylifolia
  • Grewia beguinotii
  • Grewia grandifolia
  • Grewia ferruginea
  • Grewia scabrida

Flora

Entry for Grewia megalocarpa Juss. [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
Grewia megalocarpa Juss. [family TILIACEAE], l.c. 4: 91 (1804); P. Beauv. Fl. Oware 2: 69, t. 102 (1818); F.T.A. 1: 245, partly (Beauvois spec.).
Grewia ferruginea [family TILIACEAE], of F.T.A1: 251, partly (Brass spec.)
Information
Scandent shrub; sepals green outside, white within; petals greenish-yellow.
Distribution
G. C. Cape Coast (Apr.) Brass! Scholes 286! Achimota (fl. 8 fr. May, fr. July) Milne-Redhead 5093! Irvine 678!
Notes
[I suggest that Beauvois’ specimen, a photograph of which I have seen, came from what is now the Gold Coast, and not from Oware. The species appears to be peculiar to the coastal scrub of the Cape Coast to Accra region. — R.W.J.K.]

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