Grewia truncata Mast.

Tiliaceae, C. Whitehouse, M. Cheek, S. Andrews & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2001

Morphology General Habit

Shrub to 5 m tall; young branches stellate-pubescent.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong with an irregular outline, 3–15 cm long, 2.1–9.2 cm wide, broadly obtuse to truncate or emarginate, sometimes deeply so, at the apex, rounded to truncate at the base, irregularly coarsely serrate to crenate, with scattered stellate hairs above, stellate-pubescent beneath, papyraceous; petiole 3–10 mm long, stellate-pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, 5–7 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescence a 1–5-flowered terminal or leaf-opposed axillary cyme, the axes with a short greyish green stellate pubescence; peduncle 5–8 mm long; pedicel 6–18 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers white, slightly urceolate in bud; sepals 1.3–2.3 cm long with a swollen blackish hooded tip; petals obovate to subcircular, 5–6 mm long, 5–8 mm wide.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androgynophore

Androgynophore glabrous for 1.5–2 mm at the base, pubescent and produced for 1.5–2 mm above the node.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Stamens 8–12 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil

Ovary 2–2.5 mm long, densely hairy; style 7–12 mm long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit (1–)4-lobed, 10–15 mm wide, the lobes 6–9 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, covered with long hairs with a small wart at their base, green with pale dots.

Figures

Fig. 3/20 (leaf, p. 9).

Habitat

Thicket and bushland, often along river-courses; 0–1000 m

Distribution

K4 K7 T2 T3

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

Morphology General Habit

Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall, with pubescent branchlets.

Morphology Leaves

Leaf-lamina 4–18 × 3–10 cm., oblong or obovate-oblong, retuse or truncate at the apex with the midrib often produced as a short mucro, margin crenate-dentate, rounded and often asymmetric at the base, glabrescent above, softly pubescent below; petiole up to 8 mm. long, pubescent; stipules c. 6 mm. long, lanceolate-acuminate, dorsally keeled, pubescent.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescences opposite the leaves, 3–9-flowered; peduncles pubescent, very short; pedicels c. 15 mm. long, pubescent; bracts similar to the stipules, c. 0·7 cm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Sepals 1·5–2·5 cm. long, linear-oblong with a thickened and swollen apex, green and tomentellous outside, white and glabrous inside.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals white, 10–16 mm. long with an ovate acute lamina much wider than the nectariferous claw which is circumvillous within ledged above and up to 2 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androgynophore

Androgynophore with a glabrous lower portion up to 2 mm. long and a pubescent elongation above 2·5–3 mm. long.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil

Ovary 4-lobed, setulose-pubescent; style c. 1 cm. long, glabrous; stigma-lobes broad.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit c. 1·5 cm. in diam., deeply 4-lobed, with the lobes somewhat conical and sparsely and minutely tuberculate-setulose.