Clethra javanica var. lombokensis

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Clethra javanica var. lombokensis

Description

Leaves very similar to those of var. javanica, but thinner, young ones on the undersurface sparsely clothed with fascicled hairs at midrib and nerves, and with stellate ones at the veins, becoming almost completely glabrous at maturity, up to 15 by 5 cm, more deeply (up to 4 mm) and more irregularly serrate.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present, Lombok present, in montane forest and Casuarina bush of Mt Rind-jani, 1700-2400 m present
Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands (Lombok), in montane forest and Casuarina bush of Mt Rind-jani, 1700-2400 m.