Iodes yatesii var. yatesii
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Description
Scandent shrub.
Branchlets weak, sparsely pubescent;
Leaves ovate- or oblong-elliptic, apex abruptly acuminate for 1-1.5 cm, tip acute, base rounded to subcordate, char-taceous, ± shining on both sides, glabrous above, the midrib excepted, subdensely covered beneath with appressed strigose hairs on veins and veinlets, and besides with softer hairs on midrib and nerves, the proper intervenium hairless, (5-)7-12 by 3-6 cm, midrib a little sunken above, much prominent beneath, nerves 5-6 curved-ascending and inarching pairs, raised beneath, veins coarsely reticulated and but little prominent beneath, reticulation of veinlets dense, finely raised on both surfaces;
Petals 4, oblong-acuminate, tip not extended and hardly inflexed, appressedly strigose outside as is the calyx, glabrous inside, c. 1.2 mm.