Salacia duckei
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Description
Tree or liana. Petiole 7-12 mm long; blades coriaceous, upper surface minutely pitted, oblong-lanceolate, (7-)10-12 x 2.5-5.3 cm, margins slightly serrate or undulate, apex long-acuminate, 1-1.5 cm long, base attenuate, decurrent into the petiole; primary vein prominent on both surfaces, secondary veins 6-9, inconspicuous, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Inflorescence 4-14-flowered, fasciculate on a cushion-like peduncle; pedicels 4-9 mm long, farinose-ceriferous. Flowers 8-10 mm diam., several parts with white dotsor farinose-ceriferous; sepals orbicular, 1-1.5 x 1-2 mm, entire, obtuse, unequal; petals yellowish often brown at base, lineolate, 4-4.5 x 3-4 mm, entire, conspicuously revolute at margins; disk fleshy, annular, sometimes somewhat lobed, red, 1.8-3 mm diam., 1 mm high; stamens strongly reflexed, filaments sub-erect, anthers dehiscing by transverse, confluent clefts, ovules 2 per locule, superposed; style truncate, to 1 mm long. Fruit green turning yellow, tuberculate, nearly globose, 4.5 x 3 x 3 cm.