Grewia stolzii Ulbr.

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Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Seldomseen, Vumba

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Seldomseen, Vumba

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Seldomseen, Vumba

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Mukuvisi Woodland, office area

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Path to Mermaids Falls, Aberfoyle

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Path from entrance gate to Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Path from entrance gate to Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe

Grewia stolzii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Path from entrance gate to Great Enclosure, Great Zimbabwe

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Synonyms: Grewia hopkinsii Suess.
Common names:
Frequency:
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.
Altitude range:
Flowering time:Oct - Mar
Worldwide distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Cb,N
Growth form(s):
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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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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Grewia stolzii.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138600, retrieved 14 October 2024

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