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Grewia villosa

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Name

Identification
Grewia villosa Willd. [family TILIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Grewia villosa

Flora

Entry for GREWIA villosa Willd. [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 villosa Willd. [family TILIACEAE], (1804). Fig. 4.
GREWIA villosa K. Schum. var. glabrior [family TILIACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 307 (1903);. types: N1, “Wadi Fullah”, Ellenbeck 230, “Daban”, Ellenbeck 316 (both B syn., destr.).
Information
Shrub, 1–3 m high; branches cylindrical to flattened, purplish brown to pale yellow, pubescent, with no or few lenticels. Leaves green and sparsely pubescent above, whitish and densely tomentose beneath; petiole 3–47 mm long, pubescent; blade suborbicular to sometimes elliptic, 3.5–16 x 2.3–14.5 cm, rounded at the apex, rounded to cordate at the base, with serrate margin. Inflorescences leaf‑opposed or extra-axillary, glomerate together with leaves, 1–2 cm long, each 1–3-flowered. Flowers functionally unisexual. Sepals elliptic to lanceolate, 7–8 mm long. Petals yellow or pink turning yellow at maturity, obovate, 3–6 mm long, with nectar-producing claw. Ovary in female flowers 2‑celled with 4(–6) ovules in each cell; style with many laciniate stigma-lobes. Fruit not or shallowly 4‑lobed, each lobe 10–15 mm in diam., covered with scattered stiff hairs; stone with irregular depressions.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S2, 3 widely distributed throughout the drier parts of Africa,
Altitude range
180–1260 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 9493; Gillett 4070; Kazmi & al. 668.
Distribution (external)
Cape Verde Is
Arabia
India
Notes
Gomosha, kabash (Som.). The fruit is edible.

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