Scolopia flanaganii (Bolus) Sim

Tree or shrub up to 5 m high with trunk up to 17 cm d.b.h., armed with slender spines up to 3 cm long chiefly on coppice shoots and young growth. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaf-blade: adult leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic or narrowly obovate to obovate, 2-3.5 cm long, 0.6-2.2 cm wide, apex acute to obtuse, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margins serrulate or remotely serrulate, often entire in lower 1/3, teeth callose, coriaceous, glabrous, midrib prominent on lower surface, lateral nerves 7-13, subimmersed; petiole 2-4 cm long; juvenile leaves ovate, 1.8-3.4 cm long, 1.1-2.2 cm wide, apex acute, base broadly cuneate or cordate, margins serrate, sometimes shortly spine-tipped, coppice shoot leaves broadly elliptic or circular, 2.6-3.3 cm long, 2-2.4 cm wide, apex acute or rounded, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margins serrate. Flowers solitary or fasciculate in leaf axils, 5-merous; pedicels 1.25-1.75 mm long, stoutish, bracteate. Sepals broadly ovate, 0.5-0.75 mm long, 0.75-1 mm wide, concave, somewhat keeled dorsally, scariose, ciliate on margin. Petals early caducuous, elliptic, ovate or circular, 0.75-1 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide. Disc annular of quadrate fleshy lobes, glabrous. Stamens 10-20; filaments 2-2.5 mm long; anthers oblong, 0.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 1-2.5 mm long, 1-1.25 mm wide at base, pubescent or glabrous; stigma obscurely 2-4-lobed. Fruit subglobose, up to 7 mm long, 5 mm wide, pubescent, red. Seeds 1 or 2.