Casearia flavovirens Blume

Large tree, 7-15-30 m, bark grey. Branchlets angular and glabrous at the tips, terete and greyish-corticate in the older parts. Leaves elliptical-oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, with shortly obtusely acuminate to long-elongate apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, rarely subcordate or cuneate, ± equilateral, (chartaceous to sub-)coriaceous, glabrous, obtusely crenate-serrate (1 mm) or entire, shining specially above, (shining and pallid-)olivaceous-yellowish when dry, pellucid-punctate, entire to shallowly undulate, 12-22(-28) by 5-8(-10) cm; midrib not to little prominent above, very so beneath, nerves 12-16 pairs, curved upwards, nearly flat above, prominent beneath, curved along the margin, veins ± transverse and veinlets ± densely reticulate and finely prominent on both surfaces; petiole glabrous, 1-1½(-2) cm. Fascicles many-flowered, normally axillary, but also recorded from leafless nodes, fascicles composed of many, very short, woody, flower-bearing tubercles, which are united in a semiglobose cushion, beset with very numerous, small (0.5 mm), pubescent bracts. Flowers fragrant, greenish-white, light-green or yellowish-green. Bracts minute, scariose, densely pubescent, rather numerous. Pedicels (sub-)glabrous, slender, 6-15 mm in anthesis. Calyx glabrous on both sides, c. 4-5 mm, greenish-white, deeply 5-lobed (to the base), lobes reflexed during anthesis. Stamens 10, equal in length; filaments (thick-)filiform, cream-coloured, 3-4 mm, nearly glabrous; anthers laxly patently hairy, light-yellow. Staminodes light-yellow, clavate, densely hirsute, specially at the apex, 2.2-3 mm. Ovary narrow-ovoid, 4-5 mm, densely hairy; style 2 mm, glabrous to glabrescent. Fruit ellipsoid to oblong, pilose at the apex, beaked, with 3 strong longitudinal ribs, i.e. the edges of the valves, glabrous, hard and hexagonous when dry, orange or yellowish or reddish-orange when ripe, 4½-7 (rarely up to 9) by 2-3½ cm; peduncle 1.2-1.5 cm long, c. 2 mm diam. Seeds numerous, striate with deep-red aril, c. 6 mm.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in open areas and in forests. It grows up to 800 m above sea level.

Uses. Wood little durable.

Plants can be grown from seeds.