Parasponia melastomatifolia
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Description
Shrub to small tree, up to 6 m, with spreading and brittle branches.
Branchlets initially densely appressed-silvery-hairy, glabrescent and sparsely lenticellate.
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-elliptic, (5-)6-8 (-10) by (1½ -) 2½-3½ (-4½) cm (index 2-3), broadest at or slightly below the middle;
Stipules ovate-elliptic, 4-5 by 2-3 mm.
Inflorescences (♂ or ♂♀, paniculate, 10-20-flowered, at anthesis lax, 2-3 cm long and across, axes c. 1 mm ø, densely appressed-pubescent;