Salacia lehmbachii Loes.

Glabrous shrub or small tree to 9 m. in height.. Latex threads absent.. Stems green, smooth and 4-angled when young, becoming dark or greyish green, warted and subterete.. Leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, petiolate; petiole 3–6(–7) mm. long; blade coriaceous, usually dull greyish green above, yellowish green beneath, usually narrowly to broadly elliptic, sometimes obovate, oblanceolate or oblong, (5.5–)7–17.5 cm. long (2–)2.5–6.3(–7.5) cm. wide, bluntly acuminate or less frequently acute, cuneate or rarely cordate at the base; veins very prominent beneath, often impressed above; margin serrate, sometimes only shallowly so.. Inflorescence glabrous, consisting of axillary shortly pedunculate few-flowered fascicles; peduncles (1–)2–4.5 mm. long; bracts ovate, 0.5–1 mm. long, entire or minutely dentate, persistent, green and often margined red; pedicels 5–9 mm. long at anthesis, articulated at the base.. Buds subglobose, ± 1–1.5 mm. long, covered by the sepals.. Flowers salmon pink, bronzy-orange, vermillion, orange-red or golden yellow, 5–10 mm. in diameter.. Sepals united at the base, very unequal, ovate or oblong, rounded, subentire or minutely denticulate, the smallest 1–1.5 mm. long, the largest 2–3 mm. long.. Petals suborbicular or broadly obovate, very shortly clawed, 3–5 mm. long, rounded or sometimes emarginate, with a fimbriolate margin.. Disc ± 2–3 mm. in diameter, a flat pad with a central depression, entire.. Stamens with slender filaments ± 1 mm. long.. Ovary ovoid with a short tapered style ± 0.5 mm. long; stigma entire; ovules 2–4 per locule.. Mature fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, 2.5–7 cm. long, 2–2.5 cm. wide, orange-red, with a rough, somewhat pustulate surface.. Fig. 8/6, p. 35.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the lowlands.