Description
Key Characters:
Growth Form:
Shrubs 3–4 m tall.
Stems:
New growth densely appressed hirtellous, gradually becoming glabrate.
Roots:
Leaves:
Leaves simple.
Opposite.
Blades oblong–elliptic, 6.5–14.8 cm long, 1.9–6.5 cm wide.
Apex obtuse to rounded, ± emarginate.
Base subtruncately rounded to slightly subcordate.
Upper surfaces glossy, glabrous; lower surfaces paler veins hirtellous; with weak or no resinous odor when crushed, thin, subcoriaceous, prominently glandular punctate.
Margins entire.
Primary lateral veins 14– 18 pairs, connected by a vein 2–4 mm from margin, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern, venation pinnate, lateral veins connected by an arched submarginal vein, higher order venation forming a reticulate pattern.
Petioles 10–16 mm long, glabrate.
Stipules absent.
Flowers:
Flowers apparently solitary, peduncles and pedicels ca. 5 mm long.
Floral details unknown.
Calyx of 4 sepals, imbricate.
Corolla of 4 petals.
Stamens 8.
Ovary superior, 4-celled and 4-lobed, carpels connate, only slightly distinct at apex to almost entirely distinct; ovules 2 per cell, hemitropous, 1 ascending; style 1, terminating in 4 short stigmatic branches.
Fruit:
Capsules ca. 8 mm long and 20 mm wide; carpels connate ca. ⅓ their length; ca. 10 mm long; exocarp minutely puberulent; endocarp sparsely short–pilose. the carpels dehiscing along the upper suture; exocarp.
Seeds 1–2 per carpel; ca. 8.5 mm long; glossy black when ripe; crustaceous; ovoid; sometimes angled from compression; embryo straight in fleshy endosperm; radicle short; cotyledons compressed; ovate; putamen brown; warty.
Ploidy:
Habitat:
Elevation Range:
730 m.