Description

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Growth Form: Small trees or large shrubs, 6–15 m tall.

Stems: Branches flattened to weakly angled, often rather stout, glabrous.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades elliptic to obovate or obovate-elliptic, 14-38 × 5.5-12(-20.5) cm. Apex obtuse to shortly acuminate with tip 4-10 mm. Base cuneate to obtuse. Surfaces glabrous, drying thinly leathery to stiffly papery. Margins flat entire. Secondary veins 7-10(-13) pairs, without domatia or with glabrous to pilosulous foveolate domatia. Petioles 8-20 mm, often rather stout, glabrous. Stipules broadly triangular, 2-4.5 mm, obtuse to acute but not aristate.

Flowers: Inflorescences with cymes 1-3 per axil, each cyme fasciculate to subcapitate, 2-10-flowered, subsessile; bracts cupuliform, 1-3 mm; pedicels to 1 mm. Flowers perfect. Calyx glabrous; ovary portion ellipsoid-cylindrical, 1.5-3.5 mm; limb reduced or glandular-denticulate, to 0.2 mm. Corolla white, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube 4-13 mm; lobes 6-8, spatulate to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 8-16 mm, obtuse to rounded. Stamens 4-8, inserted in corolla throat, exserted; filaments absent or short; anthers dorsifixed near base. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 1 in each cell, attached at middle of septum; stigma 2-lobed, exserted.

Fruit: Drupes red; ellipsoid; 19-21 × 15-17 mm; smooth when dry; glabrous. Seeds longitudinally grooved on ventral face.

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