Rhyticaryum elegans
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Description
Shrub, 1-3 m.
Branchlets slender, tips sparsely setulose, older parts early covered with greyish or brownish cork, lenticels elliptic.
Leaves oblong- or elongate-elliptic, apex (rather) abruptly narrowed to a slender bluntish or subacute, often curved acumen (1-3 cm by 5-8 mm at base), base cuneate to almost rounded, olivaceous-brownish when dry, generally shining on both faces, practically glabrous, 8-16 by 3-5(-7) cm, nerves (6-)8-10 pairs, the lower pair curved-ascendent, the upper ones ± rectangularly from the midrib and straight, all looping and a little prominent above, sharply so beneath, reticulation fine and dense, generally slightly raised on both sides, sometimes rather obscure above;
Ovary ovoid-conical, with large stigma, denselystrigose, 2 mm.