Grewia nematopusK.Schum. [family TILIACEAE ] Verified by Abdalla, N., Grewia tembensisNot on sheet. [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Grewia populifolia
Grewia membranacea
Grewia carpinifolia
Grewia nematopus
Grewia tembensi
Grewia pilosa
Grewia reticulata
Grewia tembensis
Grewia parvifolia
Grewia flavescens
Flora
Entry for GREWIA tembensis Fresen. [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]
Shrub, up to 4 m high; branches grey to purplish, pubescent in young parts only, with no or few lenticels. Leaves green and glabrous on both surfaces or white and tomentose below; petiole 3–11 mm long, pubescent; blade elliptic to sometimes ovate, 1–7.5 x 1–4 cm, obtuse to acute at the apex, rounded at the base, with finely and regularly crenate-serrate margin. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, solitary, 1.2–4.5 cm long and 3-flowered; peduncle 2–25 mm long; pedicel 2–10 mm long. Sepals elliptic, 6–10 mm long. Petals white, elliptic, c. 7 mm long, with a basal nectar-producing claw. Ovary 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell; style with 4 stigma-lobes. Fruit 2–4-lobed, each lobe 4–6 mm in diam., glabrous; stone rugose.
