Details of record no: 94659

Grewia retinervis Burret

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Record details:

Date: 10 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
205
Determiner(s):GL Maggs
Confirmer(s):
Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: Near Ngoma: In Terminalia sericea woodland.
Location code(s):
Outing code:
Planted code: Not planted
Country: Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Quarter Degree Square: 1724D3
Grid reference:
FZ Division:
Altitude (metres): 0
Notes: Shrub; Notes: Tall shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Stems woody with red-brown bark peeling off in grey papery layers; lateral branchlets often geniculate, red-brown with dense brown indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; petiole short, 2 mm long, densely pubescent; stipule linear, caducous; lamina ovate-elliptic, apex acute, base rounded, slightly oblique, margin denticulate, 35 x 20 mm, dull olive-green, adaxially sparsely pubescent, abaxially conspicuously pubescent especially along reticulate venation. Flowers clustered in 2-4 's, axillary, at most 15 mm in diameter. Petals 5, free, narrowly obovate, shorter than sepals. Sepals 5, free, yellow to yellow-green, pubescent, lanceolate, 10-12 mm long, strongly recurved. Stamens numerous, golden yellow in central cluster. Fruit a berry, globose, undivided, 5 mm in diameter, green. sparsely pubescent.
Latitude, Longitude: -17.875000, 24.625000
Location Accuracy Code: 4

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Caprivi: Individual record no: 94659: Grewia retinervis.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94659, retrieved 29 March 2024

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