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  • COMMON NAME: Grewia
  • ARABIC: شرهم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Grewia erythraea Schweinf.
  • SYNONYMS: Grewia populifolia
  • FAMILY: MALVACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Wadi Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/GREWIA.erythraea https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/m/malvaceae/grewia/grewia-erythraea https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:834217-1 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

An erect compact leafy shrub, up to 1 meter high, much branched. Leaves alternate, simple, ovate to obovate, serrate with 3-prominent veins, 1-2 cm long, about 1 vm wide, with stellate hairs especially on the veins. Petioles short. Stipules minute. Flowers solitary or in pairs, opposite the upper leaves, about 1 cm long. Sepals 5, free, leathery. Petals white, free, clawed, shorter than sepals, glandular, hairy at the base. Stamens numerous. Style 1; stigma lobed. Fruit orange drupes, pubescent, 4-lobed, sometimes 3-lobed, each about 5 mm across. 

Flowering from March to June.
Wadis and mountain slopes, among rocks.
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