Grewia rogersii Burtt Davy & Greenway

Species

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Characteristics

Small spreading bush or shrub up to 5 m tall; young branches brown tomentellous, later glabrescent with purplish brown bark. Leaf-blade up to 70 x 37 mm, oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, apex acute or obtuse, base rounded and often somewhat asymmetric, margin serrate, rather shining, dark green (or bronze in dried specimens) minutely and sparsely stellate-puberulent above, whitish or very pale brownish tomentose below with prominent nerves; petiole up to 5 mm long, whitish or brownish tomentose; stipules up to 6 mm long, very caducous, subulate, tomentellous. Inflorescences apparently axillary, usually 3-flowered; peduncles up to 15 mm long, tomentose; pedicels similar, about 10 mm long; bracts very caducous, not seen. Sepals about 9 x 1.5 mm, linear-oblong, apex acute or subacute, tomentose outside, 3-nerved, glabrous within. Petals yellow, about 3/4 the length of the sepals, narrowly obovate-oblong, basal nectariferous claw not wider than the base of the blade, about 1 mm long, circumvillous within but not very densely so. Androgynophore with a basal glabrous portion 1 mm long, tomentose at the apex but scarcely produced beyond the basal glabrous portion. Ovary 4-lobed, densely villous; style 3-5 mm long, glabrous, stigma-lobes broad. Fruit (slightly immature) 9 mm in diam., very deeply 4-lobed, tomentellous and with longer brownish hairs.
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A shrub. It has several stems. It grows 5 m tall. Young branches are grey and hairy. The leaves are alternate and simple. They are narrowly oval. They are 2-7 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. The fruit has 4 lobes and is fleshy.
Shrub, 5 m high. Leaves discolorous. Fruit 4-lobed. Flowers yellow.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows on rocky hillsides.
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Edible fruits
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Images

Grewia rogersii unspecified picture

Distribution

Grewia rogersii world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:834517-1
WFO ID wfo-0000710262
COL ID 3HDJX
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Synonyms

Grewia rogersii