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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. Malawi: 17 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bicolor Juss. | N,S | Description, Image |
| flavescens Juss. var. flavescens | N,S | Description, Image |
| forbesii Harv. ex Mast. | S | Description, Image |
| herbacea Welw. ex Hiern | C,S | Description, Image |
| inaequilatera Garcke | S | Description, Image |
| lepidopetala Garcke | S | Image |
| micrantha Bojer | C,S | Description, Image |
| microcarpa K. Schum. | S | Description, Image |
| mildbraedii Burret | N | |
| monticola Sond. | C | Description, Image |
| occidentalis L. var. occidentalis | Description, Image | |
| pachycalyx K. Schum. | N | Description, Image |
| praecox K. Schum. | N | |
| stolzii Ulbr. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| subspathulata N.E. Br. | C | |
| sulcata Mast. | S | Description, Image |
| truncata Mast. | S | Description, Image |
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