Grewia mollis
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| Grewia mollis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Grewia |
| Species: | G. mollis |
| Binomial name | |
| Grewia mollis | |
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Grewia mollis is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical Africa, Yemen and Oman.[2] It is the source of grewia gum, an edible polysaccharide mucilage, similar in its properties to tragacanth gum.[3]
It can be affected by a smut fungi, called Pericladium grewiae Pass., which was found on a plant in Eritrea.[4]
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