Prunus brachystachya
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Description
Usually small trees up to 15(-26) m, sometimes with low buttresses, bark grey to brown.
Leaves oblong to ovate, 7-17 by 2-8.5 cm, base rounded to more acute, apex acuminate, herbaceous to papyraceous, with 7-11 pairs of nerves, venation inconspicuous, both sides glabrous (maybe some hairs when young), basal glands 2, flat.
Stipules narrowly triangular to linear, 4-5.5 by 0.5-1.5 mm, free, hairy outside.
Flowers often (?) unisexual, 4- oi 5-merous.
Sepals triangular to elliptic, c. 1 mm long, densely hairy outside.
Petals elliptic, c. 1 mm long, greenish or white, hairy.
Stamens 15-25, glabrous, filaments up to 3.5 mm, anthers 0.3-0.5 mm long.
Ovary and pistillodium glabrous.
Fruits transversely ellipsoid to didymous, 9-13 by 10-19 mm, exocarp glabrous, red to black when ripe, mesocarp juicy, endocarp glabrous inside.
Seed with glabrous testa.