Grewia tenax (Grewia tenax)
Description
It is a subtropical shrub up to 1.5 m high, but it can grow taller in the Sahel Irregular, very tortuous, creeping due to the harsh climatic-climatic conditions in which it lives. Stems and old branches with grayish-brown bark. Leaves more or less suborbicular; On the same plant may appear broadly ovate or obovate leaves, sometimes they are a little wider than long; they can end in acute or very rounded tip, slightly wavy, dentate margin, glabrescent of intense green color by the beam and a little lighter on the underside ; with petioleof 4-10 mm. Solitary flowers or in pairs. Calyx with 5 sepals oblong, acute, leathery, white shorter than the sepals Stamens numerous, yellow-pale anthers Druceous fruit with 1-4 lobes (usually 2) of 3-6 mm in diameter, subglobular, orange. It flowers from April to June and fructifies from June to August. It can be seen flower and fruit at the same time
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Malvales
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Family: Malvaceae
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Genus: Grewia
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