Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or rarely small trees to 10 m tall.

Stems: Branchlets terete (cylindrical) 2-3 mm in diam., sparsely brown scaly when young, finely wrinkled.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Blade obovate to oblanceolate, 7-14 × 2-4 cm. Apex broadly to narrowly acute. Base cuneate. Upper surfaces dull, glabrous or sometimes minutely brown scaly abaxially. Blades leathery. Margins entire, usually revolute. Lateral veins 14-25 on each side of midrib, inconspicuous, marginal vein obscure. Petioles marginate, 5-10 mm.

Flowers: Inflorescences axillary, near ends of branches, paniculate, branches subumbellate or cymose, 3-4(-7) cm, glabrous. Flowers membranous, white, ca. 3 mm. Pedicel ca. 5 mm, brown scaly. Sepals ovate, 1-1.5 mm, sparsely punctate, margin entire, ciliate, apex acute. Petals nearly free, broadly ovate, inconspicuously punctate, glabrous, apex acute. Stamens ca. 3/4 as long as petals; filaments equal to anther length; anthers ovate, prominently black or inconspicuous pellucid punctate dorsally, dehiscent by pores opening into large longitudinal slits, apex apiculate Ovary superior, pistil ca. as long as petals; ovary glabrous, punctate; ovules numerous, multiseriate.

Fruit: Fruit globose; red to blackish; ca. 7 mm in diam.; somewhat fleshy.

Ploidy: 2n = 48

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