Carmona retusa
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Description
Shrub or tree, 1—4(—10) m high, much branched.
Leaves: petiole 1—5(—10) mm long; blade 0.8-6(-10) by 0.5-2.5(-4) cm, obovate to spathulate, broadest in upper third and gradually narrowing towards petiole, rounded, obtuse or rarely acute, toothed or crenate towards apex, bearing short, rigid, more or less appressed hairs from clusters of mineralized cells.
Inflorescence: peduncle arising from leaf-axils or apex of short shoots, slender, 0.2-2.5(-4) cm long; flowers 2-6 fascicled or in a scantily branched cyme; pedicels 0-7 mm long.
Stamens: filaments 2.5-3.5 mm long, the anthers oblong.
Ovary: style 4.5-6 mm long, bifid, branches 3-5 mm long.
Fruit globose, 5-6 mm in diam.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present); Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Flores present, Kwangtung present, Ryukyu Islands present, Solomon Islands present, Sumba present
India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, China (Hainan, Kwangtung), Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Islands); Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumba, Flores), Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Islands. Often cultivated in gardens for ornamental purposes.