Hunga papuana
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Description
Small tree, the young branches lanate, soon glabrous.
Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 10-19 by 4-6.5 cm, finely acuminate at apex, the tip 8-16 mm, rounded to subcuneate at base, glabrous on both surfaces;
Stipules lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, puberulous, persistent.
Inflorescences of terminal and axillary panicles, 3-10 cm long, the rachis and branches sparsely lanate-puberulous when young.
Flowers 1.5-2 mm long.
Petals glabrous.
Stamens c. 7, unilateral with toothed staminodes opposite.
Ovary bilocular, lanate-pilose externally.
Fruit sagit-tate-pyriform, unilocular, to 5 cm long, the upper portion triangular, 2-3.5 cm long, the base narrowly and abruptly tapered to a stipe 0.6-1 cm long;