Guioa subsericea Radlk.

Shrub to tree, 3-30 m high, dbh 6-50 cm; outer bark usually smooth to longitudinally fissured or finely pustulated, greenish to greyish to reddish brown, inner bark white to red-brown, no exudate; sapwood white, (rings prominent), heartwood brown. Branchlets shortly sericeous (to hirsute), especially when young; flowering twigs 1.5-7 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; rachis 1.2-20 cm long, terete to somewhat flattened below the jugae, sub-sericeous (to hirsute), petiole 0.9-9 cm long; petiolules up to 0.9 cm long. Leaflets opposite to sub-opposite (to alternate), ovate (to elliptic), 3.5-18.3 by 0.9-9.3 cm, index 1.9-4.3, usually very asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous to very coriaceous, usually punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat (to re volute), apex gradually (acuminate to) cuspidate to caudate, mucronulate; upper surface densely pilose when young to sub-sericeous when older, (wax); lower surface dull, papillate, (sub)sericeous (to hirsute), domatia absent to many small pocket-like sacs in axils of nerves; venation on upper side (slightly sunken to) flat (to raised), raised on lower; nerves 0.2-2.8 (-4.2) cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets; veins densely to laxly reticulate, usually distinct. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, branching basally and along the terete, sericeous (to hirsute), 1-26.6 cm long axis; first order branches up to 10.5 cm long; cymules cincinnate (to dichasial), 2-4(-6)-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.5-2.2 mm long; bracteoles 0.2-1.1 mm long; pedicels (1.2-)2.2-3.6(~6) mm long, sericeous except for the (sub) glabrous articulate part. Flowers c. 3 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous, light to midgreen; 2 outer smaller ones 0.6-1.8 by 0.6-2.3 mm; 3 inner larger ones 0.8-3 by 1-3 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, rhombic to elliptic to obovate, 0.9-2.3 by 0.5-1.6 mm, white to yellow; claw 0.2-0.3 mm high; margin and less so outside pilose, inside (sub)glabrous, apex retuse to rounded; scales inwardly folded auricles, 0.3-1.2 mm high; crest absent (to clavate, shortly stipitate). Disc uninterrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.2-2.8 mm long, pilose, especially basally, white; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, glabrous to sparsely pilose, light pink to purplish red. Pistil: ovary 0.3-1.2 mm long, subhirsute, midgreen; style and stigma 0.2-1.3 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 0.9-1.6 by 0.9-2.4 cm, smooth to rugose to slightly ribbed, glabrous, red when fresh, usually blackish when dry; stipe 0-4 mm high, broadly obconical, indistinct; margin blunt; lobes 7-17 by 5-11 mm; septa complete. Seeds (globose to) obovoid, 5.8-7.8 by 3-8 mm; hilum 1-1.2 mm long; arillode orange.

It is a tropical plant.