Chazaliella abrupta (Hiern) E.M.A.Petit & Verdc.

Small shrub 0.6–4.5 m. tall, with pallid (mostly greyish or white) thinly cork-covered stems; youngest parts green, the internodes with 2 longitudinal keels, glabrous, glabrescent or pubescent.. Leaf-blades elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 0.8–17.5(–22) cm. long, 0.4–7.5(–10) cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, usually rather undeveloped or even not present at the flowering stage and fully expanding in the fruiting stage, glabrous or finely pubescent, pale green but often with a bronze tinge beneath; nodules absent; domatia reduced to small white tufts or quite absent; petiole 1–4(–30) mm. long; stipules ovate or triangular, 2 mm. long, obtuse, acute, shortly bifid or even with several teeth.. Flowers (4–)5(–6)-merous, in small 6–20-flowered heads, or sometimes with a few flowers beneath the heads, up to 8 mm. in diameter; peduncle 0.7–3.5 cm. long, ± papillate, finely pubescent or glabrous; pedicels 0.5–1.2 mm. long; bracts minute.. Calyx glabrous to pubescent; tube oblong-conic, 1 mm. long; limb very shallow, 0.5 mm. long, truncate or lobes obsolete to distinctly triangular, 1 mm. long.. Corolla bright yellow, glabrous or very slightly papillate-pubescent outside; tube 2.8 mm. long; lobes 1.5 mm. long, 1–1.3 mm. wide, slightly cucullate at the apex.. Stamens with filaments 1 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 2–3 mm. long in long-styled flowers.. Style. 1.8 mm. long in short-styled flowers, 3.5 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma-lobes thick, 0.8–1.2 mm. long.. Drupes ellipsoid, 6–9.5 mm. long, 4–6.5 mm. wide, glabrous or slightly pubescent, slightly ribbed in the dry state; pyrenes pale, semi-ellipsoidal, 6–7 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide, 0.8–2.5 mm. thick.. Seeds pale brown, compressed semi-ellipsoid, 5 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide, 1–1.2 mm. thick.