Grewia hirsuta Vahl

Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets coarsely gray-brown stellate hairy. Petiole 2-3 mm, tomentose; leaf blade lanceolate, 6-14 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, black-brown when dried, abaxially yellow-brown stellate tomentose, adaxially sparsely coarsely stellate, lateral basal veins to 1/2 as long as leaf blade, lateral veins 4-5 pairs, base narrow, shallowly cordate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate or rarely obtuse. Cymes 1-5 per leaf axil, 3-or 4-flowered; peduncle 3-7 mm, tomentose. Pedicel 3-5 mm, tomentose. Bracts lanceolate, 3-4 mm. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 6-7 × ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous. Petals narrowly ovate, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm. Stamens 4-5 mm. Ovary villous; style longer than stamens, glabrous; stigma 4-lobed. Drupe globose or 2-lobed, sparsely coarsely hairy; drupelets 2 per lobe. Fl. Jun-Jul.

Mixed deciduous, and dry evergreen forests; often occurring on limestone; at elevations from 200-1,500 metres.

The fruit are acid and used in juice drinks. The ripe fruit are eaten raw.

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