Clethra javanica var. javanica
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Description
Small tree, 3-6(-10) m, trunk up to 15 cm ø, often crooked, or much branched shrub, 2-5 m;
Branchlets rather robust, covered distally with a rusty hirsute or almost lanate tomentum as are the petioles.
Leaves lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, sometimes partly obovate in the same specimen, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate, subcoriaceous, dark green, shining and glabrous above, much paler beneath, and set there still towards the maturity with both longish simple or fascicled rufous and fewer minor stellate hairs on midrib and nerves, whereas the veins bear only scattered stellate hairs and the intervenium is glabrous, finally glabres-cent, (5-)6-10(-13) by 2.5-4(-6) cm, rather regularly and deeply (1.5-2 mm) serrate, nerves (15-)17-20(-23) pairs, spreading, ± approximate and subparallel, rather straight from the midrib and partly forked before the edge, ± sharply prominent beneath, veins transverse, ± raised beneath too;
Petals obovate, apex slightly erose, thin, glabrous, white or pinkish, (5-)6-7 by c. 3 mm.
Ovary shortly rufous-hirsutulous;
Capsule subglobose, 2.5-3 mm ø, pedicel elongate to 10 mm, style slender, 3.5-4 mm.
Seeds ovoid, subtrigonous or variously compressed, 0.5-0.8 mm.