Wikstroemia lanceolata Merr.

An undershrub up to 4 m. Young branchlets densely appressed-pubescent and glabrescent. Leaves membranous to papery, glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent on the midrib beneath, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 3-8.5 by 0.5-2.5 cm; base obtuse; apex acuminate; nerves 10-16 pairs, sometimes branched and irregular, slightly elevated beneath, visible or obscure above, obliquely spreading to the margins and united into an intramarginal vein; veins obscure or distinct, spreading and loosely reticulate; petiole short, 1-2.5 mm, appressed-hirtellous. Inflorescences umbelliform to shortly spicate, terminal, very rarely axillary; peduncles very short, sometimes up to 1.5 cm, (1-)3-5(-20)-flowered; pedicels c. 1-1½ mm, appressed-hirtellous. Flowers green or yellowish-green, 6-15 mm long, puberulous, glabrescent outside. Calyx lobes ovate or oblong, obtuse, c. 1 mm long. Stamens sessile or short-filamentous, c. 0.75-1.5 mm long. Disk 2 free scales, linear or slightly oblong. Ovary ovoid, slightly hairy at the apex; style obscure; stigma subglobose. Fruits short-ovoid, c. 8 by 5 mm, usually glabrous sometimes sparsely hairy at the top, pericarp fleshy. Seeds 6 mm long.

Scattered in thickets. Common on forested slopes; at elevations up to 1,300 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.