Grewia glandulosa Vahl

Shrub or small tree up to 7.5 m tall; young stems shortly stellate-pubescent.. Leaves ovate to elliptic-oblong, 4.6–15 cm long, 2.7–8.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, cordate or ± truncate at the base, margin finely evenly serrate, ± glabrous above, scattered minutely stellate-pubescent beneath; petiole 6–12 mm long, stellate-pubescent, sometimes densely so; stipules subulate, 5–10 mm long.. Inflorescence a 2–5-flowered terminal or leaf-opposed axillary cyme; peduncle thick, up to 9 mm long; pedicels thick, up to 11 mm long.. Flowers pinkish purple; sepals 10–19 mm long; petals obovate to subcircular, 5–12 mm long, 5–6 mm wide.. Androgynophore glabrous for 1.5–2 mm at the base, pubescent and produced for 1.5–2 mm above the node.. Stamens 10–14 mm long; filaments pink to mauve; anthers yellow.. Ovary ± 2.5 mm long, densely hairy; style 5–8 mm long, green.. Fruit ± cuboid, 14–25 mm wide, 10–16 mm high, shallowly 4-lobed, covered with a dense rusty brown stellate pubescence.. Fig. 3/19 (leaf, p. 9).

Dry forest and bush on coral rag; clifftops; often forming thickets just above the high-water mark; strictly coastal at elevations up to 50 metres.

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