Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect or spreading shrubs 1–4 m tall, bark of young growth brown to reddish brown, yellowish green tomentose to glabrous.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades oblong to elliptic, 3–9 cm long, 1.5–3.2 cm wide. Upper surfaces glabrous or with a few hairs along midrib; lower surfaces glabrous to tomentose, dull or glossy. Margins entire to serrulate and ± slightly revolute. Pinnately veined. Petioles 0.7–1.3 cm long. Stipules small, deciduous.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences umbels, pedunculate, 5–60-flowered. peduncles 4–18 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect), pedicels 10–20 mm. Calyx of 4–5 sepals; sepals 1–1.3 mm long, deltate, arising as lobes on floral tube, valvate in bud. Corolla of 0 or 4–5, ca. 0.7–0.8 mm long or sometimes absent. Stamens 4–5, opposite the petals; filaments distinct, adnate to base of petals. Ovary partly inferior, 2–4-celled; ovules 1 per cell, basal and erect, anatropous; style usually undivided.

Fruit: Fruit green; black; or red at maturity; T–9 mm long; usually with 2 stones. Seeds obovoid to lenticular; with cartilaginous beak protruding through opening in stone; not furrowed.

Ploidy: 2n = 24

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