Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Small branched shrub, ca. 20–30 cm tall.

Stems: Stems branched from near the base of the plant, up to ca. 5 mm diam. when dried, the older ones glabrous, pale brown, young growth strigillose, green.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Spirally arranged, closely spaced toward the tips of the branches, forming tufts. Blades linear, 4.5–8 cm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, the midrib conspicuously raised on the abaxial side, somewhat folded on the adaxial side. Apex acute. Surfaces strigillose, more densely so toward the base, and progressively sparser toward the apex, glabrate in age, the hairs unbranched. Margins involute. Sessile; axils with a tuft of pale tan hair. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1 to 3 in axillary cymes, arranged on elongating lateral branches; peduncle (in bud) 1–4 cm long; bracteoles, much smaller than the leaves, 5– 8 mm long; sessile in bracteole axils. Flowers bisexual (perfect), strongly irregular. Calyx 5–parted; sepals connate into an undulate rim at base, the lobes immature, irregular in length, 0.5–1.5 mm long. Corolla known from a single bud, asymmetrically fusiform, 12 mm long, strigillose externally, at least when very immature, more glabrate as it develops. Stamens 5; filaments about the same length as the developing corolla tube, ca. 6.5 mm long; anthers (developing) 3.5 mm long. Ovary inferior, ovoid, 2-celled; ovule placentation axile; style exserted and protruding through the adaxially split tube, curved abruptly downward near stigma; stigma 1–2-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit unknown. Seeds 1 to numerous; with oily endosperm.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Disturbed wet forest.

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