Grewia robusta Burch.

Small bush up to about 3 m tall, young branches densely stellate-puberulent or tomentellous, later glabrescent with smooth greyish or greyish purple bark; branches rather stiff. Leaves often clustered on abbreviated side-shoots; leaf-blade up to 20 x 16 mm, broadly elliptic, obovate, broadly ovate or rotund, apex obtuse, base rounded or slightly cordate, margin finely crenate or almost entire, densely stellate-puberulent above at first but soon glabrescent, greyish tomentellous below; petiole 1-2 mm long, tomentellous; stipules about 2 mm long, caducous, linear, tomentellous. Inflorescences reduced to a single flower opposite the leaves; peduncles 2-3 mm long, tomentellous; pedicels similar; bracts linear, similar to the sepals, very caducous. Sepals up to 15 x 3 mm, linear-lanceolate, apex subacute, 3-nerved and tomentellous outside, glabrous within. Petals pink or mauve, slightly shorter than the sepals, blade narrowly elliptic, basal nectariferous claw scarcely wider than the base of the blade, 1.5 mm long, circumvillous within but very densely so, pubescent at the back, ledged above. Androgynophore with a basal glabrous portion about 1 mm long, tomentose at the apex but scarcely produced beyond the basal glabrous portion except in fruit when this portion may attain a length of about 1 mm. Ovary shallowly 4-lobed, densely hirsute; style about 7 mm long, slender, glabrous; stigma-lobes broad. Fruit purplish, about 17 mm in diam., deeply 4-lobed often only 2 present, fleshy, sparsely hispid.

It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It grows in dry soil. It grows in areas with an annual rainfall between 150-200 mm. It grows between 300-600 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.

The fruit are used as a vegetable.