Styrax grandifolius Aiton

Shrubs or trees, to 6 m, often suckering extensively from roots. Leaves: petiole 4-12 mm; blade with 5-8 secondary veins, obovate to broadly elliptic or broadly rhombic, 7-20 × 4-14.3 cm, largest blades on sterile shoots 5-20 cm wide, margins of at least some leaves on sterile shoots (and often fertile shoots) denticulate to serrate, rarely also lobed, longest arms of abaxial hairs 0.2-0.6 mm. False-terminal inflorescences 2-19-flowered or solitary flower, 3-11.5 cm; axillary flowers present on at least some shoots (subtending leaves often reduced). Pedicels 4-9 mm, usually shorter than calyx. Flowers: calyx 4-6 × 3-6 mm; corolla 10-21 mm, tube 3-5 mm, lobes 5(-6), imbricate in bud, slightly reflexed, elliptic, 8-16 × 3-7 mm; filaments distinct beyond adnation to corolla. Nutlike fruits globose to subglobose, 8-12 × 6-8 mm (broader when 2-3-seeded), gray to yellowish gray stellate-pubescent, indehiscent or at most with 1-3 narrow longitudinal fissures, barely exposing seed(s); fruit wall 0.4-0.5 mm thick. 2n = 32.