Vasilis Teodoridis:
Tiliaceae | Grewia
12. Grewia abutilifolia W. Vent ex Jussieu; Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 4: 92. 1804.
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Grewia hirsutovelutina Burret; G. kainantensis Masamune; Sterculia tiliacea H. Léveillé.
Shrubs or small trees 1-5 m tall; branchlets yellow-brown stellate; coarsely hairy. Petiole 1-2 cm; coarsely stellate tomentose; leaf blade broadly ovate to nearly orbicular; usually lobed distally; 7-11 x 5-9 cm; papery; densely yellow and brown; coarsely stellate tomentose abaxially; adaxially sparsely coarsely stellate hairy; lateral basal veins more than 1/2 as long as leaf blade; each with 7-9 secondary veins; lateral veins distal; 3-4 pairs; base rounded or slightly cordate; margin serrulate; apex acute. Cymes 3-7 per leaf axil; peduncle 3-6 mm. Pedicel 4-8 mm. Bracts filiform; caducous. Sepals white; narrowly oblong; 6-8 x ca. 2 mm; abaxially hairy; adaxially glabrous. Petals 2-3 mm. Androgynophore glabrous. Stamens 4-5 mm. Ovary villous; style as long as sepals; stigma 2-lobed. Drupe obscurely 2- or 4-lobed; tomentose; drupelets 1 per lobe.
Scrub; slopes on grasslands. Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Taiwan; Yunnan [Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam].