GREWIA tembensis(K. Schum.) Burret var. kakothamnos [family TILIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 194 (1910). [type as above]
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Shrub, up to 4 m high, usually flowering without leaves; branches glabrous except when very young, with pale lenticels. Leaves green and glabrous to puberulous with few scattered hairs on both surfaces; petiole 2–5 mm long, pubescent; blade obovate to broadly elliptic, narrowing to the base, 2–6.5 x 1.5–4.5 cm, rounded both at the apex and the base, with irregularly crenate margin. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, solitary, 1–2 cm long, with a solitary flower; peduncle 1.5–5 mm long; pedicel 1–5.5 mm long. Sepals elliptic, 9–10 mm long. Petals white to pale lilac, obovate, 5–8 mm long, with poorly developed nectar-producing claw. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell; style with 4 broad stigma-lobes. Fruits greenish with purple tinge when young and maturing to orange, 2–4-lobed, each lobe 4–5 mm in diam., glabrous or with some long hairs; stone rugose.
