Shrubs or small trees, 2-10 m tall. Leaves: petioles 1-13 cm long, slightly winged, slightly swollen at base; lamina obovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 32-135 by 6-25 cm, coriaceous, base cuneate, confluent often to petiole base, margin serrate-crenulate, apex acuminate, lower surface glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces more so beneath, primary veins 32-65 pairs, brochidodromous, prominulous on both surfaces, intercostal veins prominulous on both surfaces, reticulate. Cataphylls 2-5 by c. 2 mm, triangular. Inflorescences cauliflorous racemes, pendulous, 30-135 cm long, with up to 71 flowers; rachis 1-4 mm diam., accrescent, puberulous; bracts sessile, lanceolate, 8-20 by c. 3 mm; bracteoles narrowly triangular, 2-3 by c. 1 mm. Calyx closed in bud, rounded or with fine pointed beak at apex, rupturing into a caducous circumscissile cap of 5-6 by 8-12 mm and a cup-shaped ring, or more rarely into 2-3 irregular segments of 5-11 by 5-14 mm. Flowers with pedicels 2-17 mm; hypanthium tetragonous, 3-5 by 3-7 mm, pulverulent; petals elliptic, 1.75-2.5 by 1-1.5 cm, obtuse, white-pink, rose-red; stamens dark red, staminal whorls 4-6, the inner one staminodal, staminal tube 2-3 mm high, staminodia connate up to 4-10 mm, free part 2-10 mm; disc annular, 0.5-1 mm high; ovary 2-3(-4)-locular, 2-4(-6) ovules per locule; style 3-4.5 cm, dark red. Fruits ovoid or spindle-shaped, truncate, 3.5-7 by 1.5-4 by 1-3.5 cm, often with up to 8 parallel ribs. Seeds ovoid, c. 2.4-3.5 by 1.25-2 cm.
More
A shrub. It grows 3-6 m tall. It only has a few branches. The leaves are on the upper part of the stem. The leaves are large. They are 79 cm long by 24 cm wide. They taper to the base. They are dark green above and more pale underneath. The flowers are a deep red. The fruit are green and mature to orange and 3 angled. They are round to oblong and 5 cm long by 4.5 cm wide. The seed is 4 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. It occurs in a spongy pulp.
Home
