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Tree up to 10 m. tall (in our area) or large shrub.. Young parts densely crimson-or yellow-brown tomentose, glabrescent, not glabrate; hairs long, stout, ± thick-walled and slightly twisted.. Leaf blades on upper parts of branches narrowly to broadly elliptic, rarely rotund, 6–11 cm. × 1–7 cm., leathery, narrowed or subrounded to a cuneate or acute base, narrowed or rounded to an obtuse apex, longly ± densely tomentose on both surfaces especially towards base.. Spikes 4–9 cm. long, in axils of smaller leaves (bracts) on lower parts of branches; bracts obovate, 1–3 cm. long, very deciduous; bracts on the rhachis inconspicuous, subterete, 2 mm. long.. Petals 3-lobed, lateral lobes bipartite.. Styles ± free, narrowly pyriform, divergent.. Fruits not seen.. Fig. 5.
An evergreen shrub or tree. It can grow 10 m high. The trunk is short and crooked. The young branches are bright red. The crown is round and heavy. The bark becomes cracked and flaky. The leaves and thin and leathery. There are fine hairs on both sides. The leaf blade is 5-10 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are usually oval. The flowers are bisexual and have 4-5 flower parts. They are cream coloured. The fruit is 3.5 cm long by 2 cm wide. They are narrowly oval and edible. They are red coloured.
Spikes 3–10(15) cm. long, stout, usually composite, often many-branched, yellowish-brown, densely tomentose (hairs strong or flexuous, meso-pachydermatose), ± remotely flowered, upright, usually in the axils of smaller (up to 3 cm. long), obovate and deciduous leaves (false bracts) at the base of the current year’s growth.
Evergreen shrub or tree up to 10 m. high with dense and close ramification; bark smooth to rough, brown to grey; young branchlets crimson, later yellowish-brown, ± densely tomentose (hairs long, mesodermatose, slightly twisted, reddish-brown to yellowish-brown or grey).
Styles 4–5, 1·5 mm. long, pyriform with leptodermatose hairs (sometimes with the apex inflated and apiculate at the extremity) towards the base, divergent, bent outwards.
Calyx-lobes 2 mm. long, triangular to deltate, pale green (tinged purplish-pink externally), densely tomentose outside and glabrous inside, their margins ciliolate.
Petals 3 mm. long, 3-lobed (central lobe slender and undivided, lateral lobes broader and 2–3-laciniate), white, glabrous, papillose.
Stamens with filaments 2 mm. long, subulate, incurved; anthers 0·3 mm. long, broadly ovoid.
Flowers 4–5-merous, bisexual, densely tomentose; bracts ± 2 mm. long, subterete.
Drupe 3·5 x 2 cm., ellipsoid, plum-coloured, edible.
Ovary 1·5 mm. long, campanulate, 4–5-locular.
Stigmas spherical with spherical papillae.
