Grewia flavescensJuss.

WFO wfo-0000709930 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Grewia flavescens, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. a Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-28 / obs. 147439902
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. b Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126689506
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Manuel R Popp
fig. c Manuel R Popp, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114908838
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. d Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107724548
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. e Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91606740
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. f Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63927405
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63503179
Grewia flavescens, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63503336

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Grewia flavescens is native: Angola, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India AngolaBotswanaBurkinaBurundiCameroonCaprivi StripCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoEritreaEswatiniEthiopiaGabonGambiaGuineaIvory CoastKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMalawiMaliMauritaniaMozambiqueNamibiaNigerNorthern ProvincesRwandaSenegalSudan-South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambiaZimbabweSaudi ArabiaYemenIndia
Native distribution of Grewia flavescens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Botswana BOT
Burkina BKN
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Caprivi Strip CPV
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Eritrea ERI
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Gambia GAM
Guinea GUI
Ivory Coast IVO
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Malawi MLW
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Niger NGR
Northern Provinces TVL
Rwanda RWA
Senegal SEN
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Saudi Arabia SAU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 51 in flower of 98 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Grewia flavescens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 51 of 98 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Grewia aspera Schinz
  • Grewia bipartita Wall.
  • Grewia carpinifolia Roxb.
  • Grewia commutata DC.
  • Grewia fabreguesii E.Boudour.
  • Grewia flavescens var. brevipedunculata Burret
  • Grewia homblei De Wild.
  • Grewia kapiriensis De Wild.
  • Grewia olukondae Schinz
  • Grewia orientalis Gaertn.
  • Grewia pilosa Lam.
  • Grewia platyclada K.Schum.
  • Vincentia flavescens (Juss.) Burret
  • Vincentia olukondae Burret
  • Vincentia platyclada (K.Schum.) Burret
  • Vinticena flavescens (Juss.) Burret
  • Vinticena olukondae (Schinz) Burret
  • Vinticena platyclada (K.Schum.) Burret

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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