Gonocaryum gracile
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Shrub or small, low-branching tree, up to 12 m;
Branchlets slender, tips finely pubescent, lower parts glabrescent, striate, early covered with greyish cork.
Leaves elliptic-oblong, sometimes subobovate-oblong, apex rather suddenly attenuate, mostly somewhat curved, tip blunt, base broadly cuneate, slightly inequilateral, subco-riaceous to coriaceous, practically glabrous with age, greyish green in dry specimens, shining above, dull and paler, sometimes tubercled beneath, (6-)8-18(-20) by 3.5-6.5(-9.5) cm, midrib slightly sunken above, much prominent beneath, nerves 4-5(-6) pairs, lower 2 or 3 pairs curved-ascending, upper ones more straight, all slightly or hardly raised above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets dense, finely raised on both faces;
Inflorescences both from foliate and lower defoliate axils, erect, (3-)5-15(-30) cm, solitary or rarely in twos or threes, laxly many-flowered;
Ovary ovoid-conical, densely grey-pubescent, attenuate to a short ± unilateral style with a flattish or subcapitate bilobed stigma.