Grewia crenata (G.Forst.) Schinz & Guillaumin

DEPAUW UNIV:
HERBARIUM.
HERBARIUM 97917
T. G. YUNCKER
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Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
no9710
G-rewia crenata (Forster) Setchell
Tree 8 m. tall, 20 cm. ctiam.; fie.
greenish white. In thicket near
Mutalau. 65 m. alt. Jan. 1 7, 1940.
1 lala val1
Coll. T. 6. Yuncker
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presented to DPU Herbarium
by T. fi- Yuncker
G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
If DEPMJW UNIVERSITY (DPU)
PURCHASED BY NY JN 19»
Grewia crenata (J. R. and G. Forster) Setchell, Dept. Marine Biol. Carnegie
Inst. Wash. 20:72,1924.
Small tree. Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, up to 15 or more cm. long and 6 or
more cm, wide but mostly somewhat smaller, palmately veined at base, pinnate above,
finely crenately toothed, acuminate. Flowers greenish white, about 1 cm. wide, numerous
in stalked, axillary clusters. Fruit about 1 cm. or less wide, lobed.
Frequent in thickets (9710, 9813, 9848, 10012). The wood was said to
have been used anciently for fishhooks. Bonito fishing poles are sometimes
tipped with it because of its toughness. Native names, lala, lala vao, lala uli.
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