Grewia micrantha Bojer

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Catapu, Mozambique.

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Synonyms:	Grewia aurantiaca Weim. Grewia woodiana K. Schum.
Common names:	Golden-fruit raisin (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	A small, shrubby tree with drooping branches. Branches often with pale lenticels. Leaves ovate-oblong or elliptic, 3-9 cm long, 3-veined from the base, hairless or sparsely hairy above, with dense white hairs below and tufts of brown hairs on the veins; base asymmetric; margin toothed. Flowers yellow, c. 2 cm in diameter, in few-flowered, axillary heads, petals shorter and deeper colour than sepals. Fruit spherical, deeply 2-lobed, or 1-lobed by abortion, each lobe c. 7 mm in diameter, pubescent, yellowish.
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Derivation of specific name:	micrantha: small-flowered
Habitat:	In open deciduous woodland.
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Nov - Dec
Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Also possibly in Madagascar.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,C,E,S
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Images last updated:	Friday 30 January 2009
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 576. (Includes a picture). 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 53 - 54.

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