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Grewia herbacea

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Name

Identification
Grewia herbacea Welw. ex Hiern [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Grewia leucodiscus K.Schum. [family TILIACEAE ] Verified by Whitehouse,C.M., 1998
Related name
  • Grewia villosa
  • Grewia herbacea
  • Grewia venusta
  • Grewia cissoides
  • Grewia leucodiscus

Flora

Entry for GREWIA herbacea Hiern [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: C. WHITEHOUSE, M. CHEEK, S. ANDREWS & B. VERDCOURT
Names
GREWIA herbacea Hiern [family TILIACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1: 96 (1896); T.T.C.L.: 614 (1949); C.F.A. 1: 224 (1951); F.F.N.R.: 236, fig. 41a (1962); Wild in F.Z. 2: 63, fig. 3b, 3g (1963); Wild & Gonç. in Fl. Moçamb. 28: 36 (1969); Vollesen in Opera Bot. 59: 33 (1980). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, near Caghuy, Welwitsch 1368 (BM!, holo., B, COI, K!, LISU, iso.)
GREWIA venusta [family TILIACEAE], [sensu Mast. in F.T.A. 1: 249 (1868) pro parte quoad spec. Welwitsch, non Fresen.]
GREWIA leucodiscus K. Schum. [family TILIACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 3: 101 (1901). Types: Malawi, without precise locality, Buchanan 133 (B†, BM!, syn.) & 171 (B†, syn., BM!, K!, isosyn.) & 653 (B†, syn., BM!, K!, isosyn.) & Zomba, Whyte (B†, syn., K!, isosyn.); Angola, Malanje, Marques 62 (B†, syn.)
Information
Small shrub very similar to G. villosa but with long virgate stems from a woody rootstock. Young stems densely stellate-pubescent, not villous. Leaves subcircular, 2.5–11 cm long, 2.5–10 cm wide, ± rounded to obtuse or slightly apiculate at the apex, cordate at the base, margin coarsely serrate or dentate, veins prominent and finely reticulate, sparsely pubescent above but denser on the veins, densely stellate-pubescent beneath but without longer hairs on the veins; petioles 0.5–3 cm long, densely stellate-pubescent; stipules subulate, 8–11 mm long. Inflorescence 2–4 cm across, usually with more than 20 flowers. Sepals 5–7 mm long; petals oblong, 3–4 mm long, ± 1 mm wide. Androgynophore ± absent; ovary ± 1 mm long, densely hairy; style ± 4.5 mm long. Fruit 2–4-lobed, ± 1.8 cm wide, tuberculate.
Range
DISTR. T 6 ( fide Vollesen), 8
Altitude range
900–1200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District Kigonsera, 24 Dec. 1973, Mhoro 1765! & 32 km E of Songea, Mkurira [Mkukira] R., 26 Dec. 1955, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7911!TANZANIA Kilwa District Selous Game Reserve, near Mtondo R., 28 June 1971, Rees T140!
Distribution (external)
; ?Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
Closely related to the West African G. cissoides and the Angolan G. suffruticosa .

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