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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Status:	Native
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.
Type location:	Tanganyika, Lake Nyasa
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	stolzii: after Adolf Ferdinand Stolz (1871-1917), German missionary, merchant and plant collector in Angola and Malawi, particularly of orchids.
Habitat:	On the margins of evergreen forest, among rocks in high rainfall woodland or on termite hills.
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Flowering time:	Oct - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	DR Congo, Burundi, 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. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 157. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 180. Wilczek, R. (1963). Tiliaceae Flore du Congo du Ruanda et du Burundi Volume X Pages 31 - 32. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 57 - 58.

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