Alyxia oblongata Domin

Erect shrub or treelet to 2 m high. Branchlets weakly angled, densely lenticellate to no lenticels, glabrous to densely and minutely puberulent, sometimes glabrescent. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4; petiole 0.1-0.4 cm long, glabrous; blade coriaceous, elliptic, ovate or obovate, 0.4-7.8 by 0.15-2.8 cm, 1.5-5.7 times as long as wide, apex long acuminate, sharply mucronate, base acute or cuneate, glabrous beneath and above, secondary veins 9-29 pairs, 35-40° from midrib. Inflorescence terminal or, rarely, axillary; flowers solitary, in a simple unbranched or a short congested compound pleiochasium, delicate, glabrous, 1.2-1.4 cm long; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm by 1.2 mm, more or less terete; bracts caducous or persistent, narrowly ovate, 1-1.8 by 0.6-0.8 mm; bracteoles one on pedicel; flowers 1-5 in an inflorescence; pedicels 0.1-0.5 mm long. Sepals not fleshy, ovate or narrowly ovate, 1.8-2.6 by 0.9-1.5 mm, 1.4-2.6 times as long as wide, apex acute or acuminate, not reflexed, glabrous, ciliate. Corolla white, not fleshy; bud head 4.7-6.8 mm long which is 0.37-0.44 of bud length, narrowly ovate, apex acuminate; tube cylindrical, 5.8-9.5 by 1-1.5 mm, 3.1-4.8 times as long as sepals, 1.5-2.2 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside, sparsely pubescent around stamens and more densely in a band beneath them inside or pubescent around and below anthers and in throat with a glabrous gap between; lobes linear, elliptic or oblong, 3.5-5.9 by 1-2 mm, 2.3-4.8 times as long as wide, apex obtuse, acute or acuminate, glabrous outside and inside, not ciliate. Stamens inserted at 3.2-5.9 mm from corolla base which is 0.37-0.58 of tube length; filaments 0.3-0.5 mm long; anther apex 2.5-4.2 mm from corolla mouth, anthers 1-1.3 by 0.35-0.4 mm. Ovaries 0.5-0.7 mm high, sparsely or densely pubescent all over; style 2-2.7 mm long; style head 0.4-0.6 mm long. Fruit red; stalks c. 1.5 mm long, with 1 or 2 articles in each string; articles with thin flesh, 6-9.6 by 4.5-7.5 mm, ellipsoid or subglobose, symmetrical, rounded or obtuse at apex. Seeds c. 5.3 by 3.9 by 3 mm.

Grows in notophyll vine forest in a variety of soils derivedfrom volcanic substrates.