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Synonyms: |
Grewia latiunguiculata K. Schum. Grewia pilosa var. grandifolia Kuntze |
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Common names: | Warty donkey-berry (English) | |
Description: | Much-branched shrub or small tree. Stems and older branches angled or fluted. Branchlets roughly hairy. Leaves oblong-ovate, oblong-obovate or broadly elliptic, 3.5-12 cm long, 3-veined from the base, roughly hairy with sunken veins above, stellate hairy below: margin finely toothed. Flowers yellow in few-flowered, axillary heads. Fruit shallowly 2-4 lobed or not lobed, 1.6 cm in diameter, covered in warty protuberances. | |
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Derivation of specific name: | forbesii: named after John Forbes (1799-1823), an English plant collector and naturalist. As representative of the Horticultural Society of London he visited the Cape in 1822. He died on the Zambezi River in Mozambique the following year. | |
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Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Malawi, Mozambique | |
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Insects associated with this species: | Eagris sabadius ochreana (Larval foodplant) | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 571. (Includes a picture). Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 47. |
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