Grewia penicillataChiov. [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Grewia penicillataChiov. [family TILIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
Grewia penicillata
Flora
Entry for GREWIA penicillata Chiov. [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]
Semi‑scandent or erect shrub, up to 2 m tall; young branches cylindrical, dark brown to purplish, glabrous to slightly puberulous, with few lenticels. Leaves green and glabrous to pubescent above, pale green and pubescent to white tomentose beneath; petiole 2–3 mm long, pubescent; blade broadly elliptic to obovate, 1–3.6(–4.5) x 0.8–2.8 cm, obtuse to rounded or rarely acute at the apex, rounded at the base, with crenate to serrulate margin. Inflorescences leaf‑opposed, extra‑axillary or glomerate together with leaves on terminal shoots, solitary or 2 together, each 1–2 cm long and 2–3-flowered; peduncle 1–5 mm long; pedicel 5–6 mm long. Flowers unisexual. Sepals elliptic, 8–11 mm long, with tufts of hairs at the tip. Petals yellow, obovate to elliptic, 4–6 mm long, with poorly developed nectar-producing claw. Ovary 2‑celled with 4 ovules in each cell; style with many laciniate stigma-lobes. Fruit not lobed, tomentose, 7–9 mm in diam.; stone with irregular depressions.
