Rhyticaryum longifolium
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Description
Sprawling shrub or small tree, 1-5 (rarely up to 15) m;
Branchlets with laxly to subdensely strigose tips.
Leaves oblan-ceolate, or oblong, or obovate-, sometimes elliptic-oblong, apex rather suddenly acuminate for 1-2 cm by 5 mm at base, tip acute or mostly bluntish, base cuneate to almost rounded, firmly charta-ceous to subcoriaceous (more stiff at higher altitudes), usually olivaceous-green and somewhat shining on both faces in the dry state, glabrous except maybe some scattered appressed hairs on midrib and nerves of the undersurface, (6.5-) 8-17(-25) by (2.5-)3-7(-10) cm, nerves 6-8(-10) pairs, curved-ascending and generally markedly looping, a little raised above, more distinctly so beneath, not rarely raised within a shallow depression above (the lamina not properly bullate, as the veins are never sunken above too), reticulation rather dense, considerably or usually more slightly raised on both faces;