Entry for GREWIA glandulosa Vahl [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 240, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
GREWIA glandulosaVahl [family TILIACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 510.
GREWIA ulmifoliaBoj. [family TILIACEAE], in Herb. Kew.
Information
A shrub or small tree(?); younger branches thinly covered with ferruginous tomentum. Leafstalks 1/2 in. long. Stipules linear, falcate, shorter than the petioles. Leaves 3–5 in. long, 1–2 in. wide, obliquely subcordate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, crenate-serrate, lower serratures glandular, feather-veined, nearly smooth on both surfaces or with a few hairs on the nerves beneath. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the petioles, dividing into 2 short pedicels. Flower-buds obovoid. Sepals linear, nearly an inch in length. Petals roundish, nearly as large as the sepals. Ovary villose. Fruit cubical, 1 in. or 1 1/2 in. diam., 4-lobed, pilose, ferruginous.
Distribution
Mozambique Mozamb. Dist. Forbes!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Dr. Kirk! Bojer!
Distribution (external)
Mauritius
Madagascar
Notes
The glandular leaves and large roundish petals form good marks of this species, which is nearly allied to G. didyma, Roxb., but has shorter petals.
