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Grewia eriocarpa Juss.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Grewia

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees to 8 m tall. Branchlets softly gray stellate tomentose. Stipule filiform, lanceolate, 5-10 mm; petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade ovate or ovate-oblong, 6-13 × 3-6 cm, papery, black-brown when dry, softly gray stellate tomentose abaxially, sparsely stellate adaxially, lateral basal veins to 3/4 as long as leaf blade, lateral veins 3-4 pairs, base obliquely rounded or truncate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate or acute. Cymes 1-3, axillary, 1.5-3 cm; peduncle 3-8 mm. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Bracts lanceolate. Flowers bisexual. Sepals narrowly oblong, 6-8 mm, hairy on both surfaces. Petals ca. 3 mm, eglandular. Androgynophore absent. Stamens irregular in length, shorter than sepals. Ovary hairy; style puberulent. Drupe subglobose, furrowed, 6-8 mm in diam., stellate hairy; drupelets 1 or 2.
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A small tree. It grows 2-6 m tall. The crown is straggling and the branches are slender and drooping. The leaves are alternate, densely hairy and pointed at the tip. They are slanting at the base and the lower surface is whitish. The flowers are small and yellow. The fruit are small, round and bluish. They are slightly 2-4 lobed.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 8.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. They thrive in forests along streams at low altitudes throughout the Philippines. In Yunnan.
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Mixed deciduous to evergreen forests at elevations from 100-1,000 metres in Thailand.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
Uses fiber food material medicinal wood
Edible fruits
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

Grewia eriocarpa unspecified picture

Distribution

Grewia eriocarpa world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Grewia eriocarpa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:834215-1
WFO ID wfo-0000709910
COL ID 3HD98
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Synonyms

Grewia inaequalis Grewia mesopoda Grewia negrosensis Grewia boehmeriifolia Grewia elastica Grewia elatostemoides Grewia eriocarpa Grewia koordersiana Grewia lantsangensis Grewia vestita Grewia araria Grewia asiatica var. celtidifolia Grewia asiatica var. vestita Grewia celtidifolia var. eriocarpa Grewia inaequalis var. leptopetala
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