Salacia pachyphylla
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Description
Slender tree, or shrub (Irwin 745); branchlets swollen at nodes, mostly alternate, greyish, sparsely lenticellate. Petiole slender, 2-4 mm long; blades coriaceous, brownish when dried, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 3.5-6 x 1.8-3 cm, margins entire, apex rounded or emarginate, base rounded or obtuse; primary vein flattened or impressed above but prominulous at base, secondary veins 6-8 per side, widely arcuately ascending, flattened or slightly impressed on both surfaces, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary, on defoliate branchlets, fasciculate, 2-5-flowered; peduncle minute; pedicels slender, 3-4 mm long. Flowers ca. 10 mm diam.; sepals membranous, glandular-lineolate, broadly deltoid, obtuse, 1-1.5 x 2 mm, entire or erosulous; petals membranous or slightly fleshy, greenish white, glandular-pustulate or -lineolate, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 4-5.8 x 3.5-4 mm, entire and narrowly revolute at margins; disk 2.2-3 mm diam., ca. 0.5 mm high, inconspicuously flattened at the base; stamens spreading, filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers ca. 0.5 x 0.7 mm, dehiscent by oblique, apically, confluent clefts; ovary short conical, ovules 4 per locule, in superposed pairs, style ca. 1 mm long. Fruit unknown.
Notes
A.C. Smith did not designate a lectotype. Miers based the description of the taxon on two collections: Appun 1881 and Schomburgk 348. We have chosen Robert Schomburgk II 348 as the lectotype and according to Bentham's note this is the same as Richard Schomburgk 494 in B. The latter is not mentiont?d by Miers and is, therefore, no type collection. Appun 1881 remains as the paratype.