Description

Key Characters: Trees; Leaves glabrous, inflorescence whooly (tomentose); Blades broadly obovate to oblong, 4-6 cm long, 3-4 cm wide; 6-10 mm long.

Growth Form: Small trees to 7 m tall,

Stems: Bark fissured, flaky, branchlets obscurely 4-angled, vegetative buds unusually large, obovoid, 2-3 cm long, 2 cm wide, scales red, broadly ovate to almost orbicular, sometimes emarginate, fimbriate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blade broadly obovate to oblong, 4-6 cm long, 3-4 cm wide. Apexbroadly rounded. Base cuneate to cordate. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces glabrous. Margins entire and flat. Lowermost 2-3 pairs of secondary veins raised and prominent, radiating from the base of the lamina. Petioles 6-10 mm long, 2-3 mm wide. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences inflorescences of 3-4 pairs of cymules with a dense, woolly, white to pale gray pubescence on all external parts, peduncles 5-18 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; bracts ovate to almost orbicular, 6-10 mm long, 4-6 mm wide. Flowers red, bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic; pedicels 2-3 mm long, 2 mm wide; hypanthium 6-7 mm high, 7-8 mm wide. Sepals triangular, acute, 3.5-4 mm high, 2.5-3 mm wide. Petals more or less orbicular, 3.5-5 mm long, 3-4.5 mm wide. Stamens 20-25 mm long. Ovary nearly superior; style 25-30 mm long.

Fruit: Fruiting hypanthium pubescent; 5.5-6 mm long; 6.5-7 mm wide; capsules only slightly exserted.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 700-1300 m