Parasponia rigida
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Description
Small tree, up to 10 m, 10 cm ø.
Branchlets initially densely silver-appressed-hairy, glabrescent and sparsely warty lenticellate.
Leaves elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, thick-coriaceous, (5—)8—10(—12) by (1½ -)2-3½ (-4½) cm (index 2½ -3½), broadest at or below the middle;
Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 8-10 by 2-3 mm.
Inflorescences ♂ or ♀, very rarely ♂♀, 10-50-flowered, at anthesis condensed, c. ½ -1 cm long, usually shorter than the petiole. — S Flowers 1-2 mm ø, perianth lobes narrow-ovate, concave, c. 2 by 1 mm, appressed-pubescent outside;