Malvaceae
Grewia

Grewia falcistipula K.Schum.

First published in O.Warburg (ed.), Kunene-Sambesi Exped.: 296 (1903)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Zambia to Namibia. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Tiliaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 2:1. 1963

Morphology General Habit
Shrub with branches spreading from the base, up to 1 m. tall; young branches greyish-tomentose.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-lamina 2–7·5 × 1·3–4 cm., elliptic, broadly elliptic or ovate, acute at the apex, margin serrate, asymmetrically rounded or subcordate at the base, finely reticulate and sparsely appressed-stellate-hairy above, densely greyish-white-tomentellous below; petiole c. 5 mm., greyish- or greyish-brown-tomentose; stipules up to 1 cm. long, entire, auriculate at the base, subulate above, pubescent, fairly persistent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences all axillary; peduncles c. 1 cm. long, tomentellous; pedicels normally 3 together, c. 2 mm. long; bracts c. 3 mm. long, normally bifid or trifid 1/3- or 1/2-way, greyish-tomentellous.
Morphology General Buds
Flower-buds oblong.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Sepals greenish-grey, up to 1·2 cm. long, linear-oblong, tomentellous on the back, glabrous within.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals bright yellow, slightly shorter than the sepals, linear, often bifid at the apex, widening into a nectariferous base which is circumvillous within ledged above and tomentellous on the back.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androgynophore
Androgynophore with a glabrous base, c. 1 mm. long, extended above into a densely pubescent column up to 2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary ovoid, not lobed, setose-pubescent; style 5–6 mm. long, pubescent at the base; stigma-lobes c. 4, short, subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit up to 1 cm. in diam., never lobed, globose, shortly and sparsely stellate-pubescent.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Plants and People Africa

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