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.

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