Medicosma elliptica T.G.Hartley

Shrub, or tree to 7 m high. Leaves opposite or rarely subopposite, simple; petiole 0.4–1 cm long; lamina elliptic or narrowly so or rarely narrowly obovate, 4.5–12.5 cm long, 1.8–6 cm wide; secondary veins 11–13 on each side of midrib, divergent at angle of 50–60°. Inflorescences 1–few-flowered, to 1 cm long; pedicels obsolete or to 1 mm long. Sepals c. 2 mm long, abaxially appressed-puberulous. Petals distinct, 4.5–5.5 mm long, white, abaxially densely appressed-pubescent, adaxially glabrous, subpersistent in fruit. Staminal filaments distinct, woolly at margin; antisepalous ones glandular-muricate towards apex. Stigma clavate. Follicles immature, c. 7 mm long.

Grows in rain forest, 270–570 m altitude.