Alyxia defoliata
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Description
Erect shrub or climber.
Branchlets weakly or strongly angled, sparsely lenticellate or not, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulent.
Leaves in whorls of 3;
Inflorescence axillary, a compound pleiochasium with clear internodes or with 1 or 2 internodes and unbranched side branches, glabrous to densely puberulent, 1.8-3.8 cm long;
Sepals ovate, 1.2-1.5 by 1.1-1.3 mm, 1.1-1.2 times as long as wide, apex rounded or obtuse, ciliate, glabrous.
Stamens inserted at 1.8-2.8 mm from corolla base which is 0.56-0.64 of tube length;
Ovaries 0.7-0.9 mm high, densely pubescent all over or pubescent around base only;
Fruit yellow, stalks 2.1-3.2 mm long, with 1 or 2 articles in each string, c. 2.7 mm between articles, sparsely puberulent at ends or all over, 9-10.5 by 7.7-8 mm, ellipsoid, globose or cylindrical, symmetrical, rounded at apex.
Seeds c. 9.3 by 5.9 by 5.4 mm.