Grewia savannicola R.L.Barrett

Scientific Description

Shrub or tree, with hairy stems. Leaves 50-120 mm long, 12-50 mm wide, not lobed; margins serrate; hairy, with stellate hairs, with tubercle-based simple hairs tubercle-based simple hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves). Perianth clearly of two whorls (calyx and corolla), the corolla obvious and prominent. Pedicel present, 4.5-5 mm long; indumentum present, with simple hairs, with stellate hairs present, with scales absent. Epicalyx (extra segments or 'bracteoles' immediately below the calyx) absent. Calyx green, 6 mm long, the lobes fused less than half their length, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) present, stellate hairs present, scales absent, Terminal appendages absent, number of ribs absent. Corolla white, 2.8 mm long, glabrous. Indumentum (outside) Sessile glands absent. Stamens many, free and inserted at the base of the ovary; filaments present, 1.8 mm long; anthers 0.3 mm long. Staminodes appendages absent. Ovary hairs or scales present, simple hairs present; style 1, 6.5 mm long, with one style branches or lobes, mostly glabrous, wing absent. Fruits indehiscent and not splitting into sections (drupes), length-width ratio more or less as long as wide, hairs and scales absent; apex rounded; prickles absent (except perhaps a terminal awn); terminal awns or spines absent; calyx deciduous before maturity, not accrescent; seeds per loculus 2-4. Flowering time January, February, March, April, May, September, October, November or December. Distribution Botanical Province Northern, IBRA Bioregion North Kimberley, Victoria Bonaparte, Central Kimberley, Dampierland and Ord-Victorian-Plain.