Grewia

Shrubs or smallish trees. Leaves serrate, very rarely entire, 3-7-nerved at base; stipules lateral. Flowers in terminal or axillary panicles or in leaf-opposed or axillary umbel-like cymes. Sepals 5, linear-oblong or linear-spathulate, stellately hairy outside, coloured like petals within. Petals 5, shorter than sepals, yellow, pink, mauve, purplish or white, mostly with a nectariferous claw at base. Stamens indefinite, free, usually raised on a torus or androgynophore which is short and glabrous or produced above into a pubescent extension. Ovary 2-4-locular, entire or 2-4-lobed, with 2-many axile ovules in each locule; style longer than ovary with subulate or flattened lobes or almost entire. Fruit a 1-4-lobed drupe with 1-4 pyrenes; mesocarp somewhat fleshy or fibrous; endocarp hard and woody. x = 9 (polyploidy, B-chromosomes).