Compilation
Grewia messinica

Tree to 6 m tall; young shoots densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves oblong to obovate, 5.5–15.5 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, truncate, rounded to shortly acuminate at the apex, obliquely asymmetric at the base, ± glabrous and glossy green above, whitish tomentellous beneath; petiole 4–8 mm long. Inflorescence a 1–3-flowered cyme, 1–2 in a leaf-axil, covered with a dense ferruginous pubescence; peduncle 5–24 mm long; pedicels 9–24 mm long. Flowers yellow; sepals 17–24 mm long; petals 7–9 mm long, broadly ovate to ± subcircular. Androgynophore glabrous for ± 3 mm at the base, densely pubescent and produced up to 2 mm above the node; stamens 11–16 mm long; ovary ± 3 mm long, densely hairy; style 9–10 mm long. Fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 15–18 mm long, 13–16 mm wide, shortly stellate-pubescent becoming glabrescent, maturing reddish. Fig. 4/50 (leaf, p. 11).