Rhyticaryum novoguineense
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Description
Treelet or small shrub.
Branchlets slender, tips appressedly sparsely hairy, older parts early glabrous and covered with greyish cork and bearing whitish-brownish elliptic prominent lenticels.
Leaves oblong, apex slenderly cuspidate-acuminate (acumen 1.5 by 0.5 cm at base, tip subacute or bluntish, generally slightly curved), char-taceous, with substrigose hairs here and there on midrib and nerves beneath, practically glabrous, dark green when fresh, greyish-green and a little shining when dry, 9-14(-16) by (2.5-)3-4.5(-5.5) cm, nerves 8-10(-12) pairs, the intercalar ones included, slightly raised above, rather sharply prominent beneath as is the rather coarse reticulation to a minor degree;