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Grewia retusifolia Pierre

钝叶扁担杆

Description from Flora of China

Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets slender, appressed yellow stellate tomentose. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 6-8.5 × 2.2-3.4 cm, abaxially gray-white adnate stellate puberulent, adaxially coarsely shortly stellate hairy, glabrescent, lateral basal veins to 1/2 as long as leaf blade, 4-7 mm from margin, lateral veins 3-4 pairs, base rounded, margin irregularly denticulate, apex obtuse or slightly acute. Cymes 1 or 2 per leaf axil, 3-5-flowered; peduncle ca. 1 cm, slender, hairy. Pedicel ca. 3 mm. Bracts filiform, lanceolate, 3-5 mm. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5-6 mm, abaxially stellate tomentose, adaxially glabrous. Petals ca. 2.5 mm. Androgynophore slightly longer than petals. Ovary hairy; style longer than stamens; stigma 4-lobed. Drupe 4-lobed, lobes globose, glossy dark reddish brown.

Secondary forests. S Guangxi (Nanning) [Indonesia, Vietnam; N Australia].


 

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