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Small trees or shrubs, sometimes scrambling or climbing. Stipules lateral. Leaves petiolate, alternate, simple, serrate or rarely entire, 3-7-veined from the base. Flowers in terminal or axillary panicles or in leaf-opposed or axillary umbel-like cymes. Sepals 5, stellately hairy, coloured inside like the petals. Petals 5, most often yellow, less often white and rarely purple (Grewia occidentalis), usually with a nectar-bearing claw or gland at the base. Stamens numerous. Ovary 2-4-locular. Fruit indehiscent, without bristles, a (1-)2-4-lobed drupe with (1-)2-4 pyrenes. Derivation of name: for Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712), British botanist and physiologist. Worldwide: 150 species in warm parts of the Old World. Zambia: 20 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| avellana Hiern | B,N,S | Description, Image |
| barombiensis K.Schum. | N,W | |
| bicolor Juss. | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| conocarpoides Burret | N | |
| decemovulata Merxm. | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| falcistipula K.Schum. | B,S | |
| flavescens Juss. var. flavescens | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| herbacea Welw. ex Hiern | S | Description, Image |
| inaequilatera Garcke | E | Description, Image |
| micrantha Bojer | E | Description, Image |
| mollis Juss. | N | |
| monticola Sond. | C,E,S | Description, Image |
| olukondae Schinz | B,S | Description, Image |
| pachycalyx K. Schum. | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| praecox K. Schum. | C,E,S | |
| retinervis Burret | B,S | Description, Image |
| schinzii K. Schum. | B,S | |
| schmitzii Wilczek | ||
| stolzii Ulbr. | N,W | Description, Image |
| subspathulata N.E. Br. | E,S |
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