Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Many-branched shrubs 1–2 m tall.

Stems: Younger branches brown short–hirtellous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic–oblanceolate, 4–12 cm long, 1.5–3.2 cm wide. Apex rounded to obtuse. Base broadly cuneate to subcordate. Upper surfaces glabrous; lower surfaces sparsely to moderately whitish or brown short–hirtellous toward base and along midrib; dark green, younger ones yellowish green, closely spaced and clustered toward the tips of the branches, coriaceous. Margins entire and revolute. Midrib prominent, lateral veins moderately conspicuous, submarginal vein present. Petioles 2–4 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 4–8 in bracteolate fascicles below the leaves, pedicels 4–8 mm long, whitish short–hirtellous, becoming glabrate. Flowers apparently unisexual (and the plants dioecious). Calyx 4–5(6)-lobed, usually deeply so, the lobes imbricate or valvate in bud, punctate or with secretory lines, lobes ca. 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous, margins ciliate. Corolla 4–5(6)-lobed; petals yellowish green, the lobes nearly distinct or connate up to ½ their length, imbricate in bud, narrowly oblanceolate, 2.8–3.2 mm long, with conspicuous secretory lines, margins ciliate. Anthers ca. 1.2–1.3 mm long, apex with a tuft of hairs. Ovary superior, 3–5(6)-carpellate, 1-celled; ovules few in a single row, ovary reduced and sterile or absent in staminate flowers; style very short or absent, terminal; stigma subsessile, capitate-angled.

Fruit: Drupes globose; ca. 6 mm in diameter (immature). Seeds 1 per fruit; small; dark colored; subglobose; excavated at base.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Cloud swept wet forest.

Elevation Range: 600–670 m.