Grewia lepidopetala Garcke

Shrub or small tree, sometimes scandent, up to 8 m tall; young branches with a short greyish green pubescence to ± glabrous.. Leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic to subrhombic, 2.7–18 cm long, 1.2–7.2 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, margin serrate, ± glabrous above, thinly minutely stellate-pubescent beneath; petiole 4–6 mm long; stipules up to 6 mm long.. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed axillary 3–8-flowered cymes, axes covered with a short sparse greyish green pubescence, often glabrescent and then with pale lenticels; peduncle 5–15 mm long; pedicels 10–12 mm long.. Flowers white, turning brown or pale yellow when old; sepals 9–15 mm long; petals obovate, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide.. Androgynophore glabrous for 1–1.5 mm at the base, pubescent and produced for 1–1.5 mm above the node.. Stamens 6–9 mm long; filaments white; anthers yellow.. Ovary ± 1 mm long, densely shortly greyish green pubescent; style 5–8 mm long; stigma pale green.. Fruit (1–)4-lobed, 9–14 mm wide, the lobes obovoid, 5–7 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, 3–4 mm high, green maturing black, scattered with a few minute stellate hairs.