Rhyticaryum purpurascens
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Description
Shrub, 2-3 m.
Branchlets glabrous.
Leaves elliptic, apex gradually acuminate for 1.5-2 cm, tip obtuse, base narrowed to the petiole, perga-maceous, glabrous, shining above, blackish-green with pale midrib in fresh, purplish in dry specimens, 15.5-20 by 5-9.5 cm, nerves c. 10 pairs, impressed above, raised beneath, reticulation very fine;
Flowers yellow when fresh, purplish when dry, 1.5 mm.
Petals connate +- halfway, minutely very laxly hairy outside.