Grewia stolzii Ulbr.

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Seldomseen, Vumba

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Mukuvisi Woodland, office area

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Path to Mermaids Falls, Aberfoyle

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Path from entrance gate to Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe

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Synonyms:	Grewia hopkinsii Suess.
Common names:	Green-petalled grewia (English) Green-petalled raisin (English)
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Description:	Scrambling or climbing shrub, rarely a small tree. Leaves elliptic-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 3-veined from the base, glabrous above, rough to the touch with stellate hairs beneath; margin finely and sharply dentate. Flowers in few-flowered terminal and leaf-opposed clusters, c. 3 cm in diameter. Sepals 1.2-2 cm, greenish and pubescent outside, white and glabrous inside. Petals shorter than the sepals, 5-9 mm, narrowly triangular. Fruit distinctly 4-lobed with long russet hairs between the lobes, reddish.
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Derivation of specific name:	stolzii: after Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917), German missionary, merchant and plant collector in Angola and Malawi, particularly of orchids.
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Flowering time:	Oct - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 279. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 580. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, M. (1989). Guide to the trees and shrubs of the Mukuvisi Woodlands ?publisher. Page 16. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 23. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 258. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 81. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 180. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 57 - 58.

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