Home
Scales whitish and usually glistening, c. 60–100µ in diam., deeply to shallowly bowl-shaped and slightly convexly scalloped at each marginal cell, delimited by 8-c. 10 radial walls alone or also up to 6 tangential walls; cell-walls obscured by copious glutinous secretions (except in very old leaves) and ± transparent apart from secretions.
Fruit reddish-brown, usually satiny, 2–3 x 1·8–2·5 cm., subcircular to broadly elliptic in outline, silvery lepidote with glistening scales, apical peg very short, wings 8–10 mm. broad, stipe 2–7 mm. long.
Thicket-forming shrub or small tree up to c. 3 m. high with tendency to climb; bark grey or greyish-brown; young branchlets densely pubescent to tomentose.
Lower receptacle 1·7–2·5 mm. long, tomentose; upper receptacle 2 x 2·5–3 mm., broadly campanulate, lepidote and pubescent.
Inflorescences of axillary spikes up to 3 cm. long; rhachis nearly glabrous; bracts 1·5 mm. long, filiform, caducous.
Cotyledons 2, 1–1·7 x 1·8–3 cm., transversely elliptic, arising above soil level; petioles 2–4 mm. long.
Petals 1 x 0·8 mm., obovate, emarginate, ciliate at the apex.
Stamen-filaments 3·5–4 mm. long; anthers 1–2 mm. long.
Flowers sessile, yellow, glutinous when young.
Sepals 0·5–1 x l–1·5 mm., broadly deltate.
Disk with very short pilose free margin.
Style 3 mm. long, apex not expanded.
