Salacia maburensis
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Tree to 3 m high; branchlets slighty striatewith small white lenticels. Petiole 5-12 mm long, 2-4 mm diam.; blades subcoriaceous, somewhat bullate on both surfaces, dull green above, pale green below, elliptic, 16-28(-36) x 6.5-12(-17) cm, margins entirewith irregularly spaced, dark glandular patches, apex acute or abruptly short-acuminate, with acumen 5(-15) mm long, base acute to obtuse decurrent into the petiole; primary vein prominent in a groove above, strongly prominent below, secondary veins 8-10 per side, arcuately ascending and anastomosing 2-4 mm from the margins, impressed above, prominent below, tertiary veins parallel, impressed above, prominulous below. Inflorescences cauliflorous or ramiflorous, fasciculate, few-flowered; pedicels slender, 2-3 mm long. Flowers 8-10 mm diam.; sepals unequal, fleshy, deltoid or orbicular, 1.8-3.5 x 2-2.5 mm, entire; petals slightly fleshy, reddish brown, with fan-shaped veins, orbiculate, 4 x 4 mm; disk conical, 4 mm diam., 1.5 mm high, brownish orange; stamens creamy brown, erect, becoming reflexed, filaments 0.8-1.3 mm long, anthers transversely oblong, 0.5 x 1.3 mm, dehiscent by slightly oblique, apically confluent clefts; ovary immersed in the disk, the apex truncate with 3 ridges terminating in a minute shield, ovules 4 per locule, in superposed pairs. Fruit globoseon short, thickened pedicel, glaucous green, turning dark green at maturity, 5 x 5 cm, pericarp coriaceous, somewhat scrobiculate, with 3 longitudinal, narrow ridges.