Rhyticaryum gracile
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Description
Divaricate shrub, 1-1.5 m.
Branchlets very slender, tips and petioles subdensely to more sparsely strigose, older parts early covered with greyish cork.
Leaves elliptic-, or sometimes slightly obovate-oblong, abruptly narrowed to an acumen, 1.5-2 cm by 3-5 mm at base, tip subacute, base cuneate, thin-pergamaceous, green when dry, a little shining, laxly covered with long pale strigose hairs along midrib, nerves and maybe veins on the undersurface of younger leaves, glabrescent, 9.5-22 by (3.5-)5-7.5 cm, nerves 6-8 pairs, curved-ascending, hardly raised above, distinctly so beneath, reticulation very dense and finely raised above, more coarse or less prominent beneath, petiole 5-7 by 1 mm.
Flowers 5-merous, too young for description.