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Grewia holstii

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Name

Identification
Grewia burttii Exell [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Whitehouse, C. M., Grewia holstii Burret [family TILIACEAE ] Verified by Exell, A.W.,
Related name
  • Grewia burttii
  • Grewia pilosa
  • Grewia holstii

Flora

Entry for GREWIA holstii Burret [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by Sebsebe Demissew [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
GREWIA holstii Burret [family TILIACEAE], (1910);
Vincentia holstii (Burret) Burret [family CYPERACEAE], (1926). [type as above]
Information
Shrub or small tree, up to 8 m high, or a climbing liana; young branches pubescent, becoming glabrous with age, older stems 4-angled. Leaves subglabrous, with minute scattered stellate hairs on both sides; blade elliptic to lanceolate, 2–6 x 1.2–3 cm, acute to acuminate at the apex, rounded or slightly unequal at the base, with serrate margin. Inflorescences solitary, axillary, 1.5–2(–3.5) cm long and 3- to several-flowered. Petals yellow, 3–5.5 x c. 1.5 mm, with nectar-producing claw. Ovary 1-celled with c. 14 ovules in each cell; style with 4 subulate stigma-lobes. Fruit unlobed, 5–8 mm in diam., globose, very minutely stellate pubescent.
Range
S3
Altitude range
c. 30 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett & al. 25040; Moggi, Tardelli & Warfa s.n.; Tozzi 252.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique

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