''Glyphaea'' is a genus of African

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s in the family

Malvaceae Malvaceae, or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include okra, cotton, cacao and durian. There are also some genera containing familiar o ...

, subfamily

Grewioideae Grewioideae is a subfamily of the family Malvaceae and was first described by Hochreutiner. The group is named after its type genus, '' Grewia'', which is named for the English scientist Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712). It contains a number of gen ...

; it was previously placed in the

Tiliaceae Tiliaceae () is a family of flowering plants. It is not a part of the APG, APG II and APG III classifications, being sunk in Malvaceae mostly as the subfamilies Tilioideae, Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae, but has an extensive historical r ...

Sparrmanniaceae Sparrmanniaceae is a segregate, probably obsolete, plant family, containing plants which have more commonly been classified in Malvaceae or Tiliaceae. In the most recent proposed circumscription, that of Cheek ex Heywood et al., it corresponds t ...

. It contains the following species: * '' Glyphaea brevis'' * ''

Glyphaea tomentosa ''Glyphaea tomentosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae ''sensu lato'', or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae family. It is found only in Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or ...

References

Grewioideae Malvaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker {{Grewioideae-stub