Maesa ramentacea
Description 2
Shrubs or rarely trees, 1.5-3(-5) m tall. Branchlets angular, glabrous, minutely lenticellate; pith solid. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, 8-16 × 2.5-5.5 cm, papery, glabrous, base rounded, obtuse, to broadly cuneate, margin entire or undulate, apex acute or long acuminate; lateral veins 5-8 on each side of midrib, not united into marginal vein. Inflorescences axillary or sometimes subterminal, paniculate, many branched, 4-10 cm, minutely glandular granulose; bracts subulate or ovate; bracteoles broadly ovate or triangular, sparsely ciliate. Flowers white, ca. 2 mm. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx lobes united ca. 1/2 their length, ovate or broadly so, glabrous, ciliate, not punctate, apex obtuse or rounded. Corolla united into a short tube, ca. 1.5 mm, not punctate, glabrous; lobes as long as tube, reniform or orbicular, rounded, margin undulate. Stamens inserted on distal part of corolla tube, included, rudimentary in pistillate flowers; anthers orbicular or reniform. Style very short, thick; stigma minutely 4-lobed. Fruit yellowish, globose, 2-3 mm, orange punctate-lineate or veined. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Nov-Dec.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Cerlin Ng, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/89906643@N06/16393285670/
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4979012
