Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or rarely small trees.

Stems: Branched from base, bark pale, separating in thin flakes, branchlets quadrangular, narrowly winged, vegetative buds ± obovoid with many fimbriate rounded scales up to 10 mm long and 7 mm wide.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple, dorsiventral (distinctly different upper and lower surfaces). Opposite. Blades obovate to suborbicular, 2–2.8 cm long, 1.3–2.2 cm wide. Apex rounded. Base cuneate to rounded. Upper surfaces dark green, shiny, glabrous; lower surfaces densely woolly with tan to reddish brown, long, appressed hairs. Margins revolute. Midrib and secondary veins strongly raised on lower surface and impressed on upper surface. Petioles ca. 2 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences of 2–3 pairs of cymules, with a dense, woolly, tan tomentum, peduncles less than 5 mm long and 2 mm wide, pedicels less than 2 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, bracts elliptic, less than 3 mm long and 2.5 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Hypanthium well–developed above ovary, fruiting hypanthium ca. 5 mm long and wide. Sepals distinct, rounded to triangular, ca. 2 mm long and wide, imbricate. Petals distinct, obovate, less than 3 mm long and 2.5 mm wide, margins densely fimbriate, imbricate. Stamens numerous, 1.8–2.3 cm long, distinct; filaments distinct; anthers dithecal. Ovary nearly superior; ovules numerous, placentation axile, anatropous; style 2.3–2.7 cm long, terminal, simple; stigma small.

Fruit: Fruit not known.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Near and on summits of cliffs.

Elevation Range: 700–800 m.