Clutia pterogona Müll.Arg.

A shrub, 1-3 ft. high, much branched; twigs spreading, finely warted, glabrous; stems, branches and twigs membranously winged; wings narrow, finely denticulate and lacerate; leaves subsessile, firmly membranous, warted, punctate, linear-lanceolate or elliptic-linear, apex subobtuse or shortly triangular, mucronulate and with the margin denticulate, sometimes fiat, at others revolute, narrowed in the lower fourth to the base, margin except at the apex from slightly to markedly revolute, hyaline but not denticulate, 0.3-1.25 in. long, 0.06-0.12 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces; flowers dioecious, white, male clustered, female paired or solitary; pedicels in both sexes shorter than the calyx, glabrous; male sepals obovate, verrucose-punctate, margins entire, glabrous, with a 2-3-lobate basal gland; petals cuneate-obovate, entire, 2-glandular at the base; rudimentary ovary glabrous, cylindric with a much dilated discoid tip, female sepals ovate-lanceolate, margin denticulate at the apex, glabrous, with a 2-3-lobate basal gland; petals narrow-obovate, glabrous, margin denticulate at the apex, eglandular; ovary glabrous, warted-punctate; styles free, 2-fid; capsule glabrous, warted, 0.2 in. across, seeds black, shining.