Clethra pulgarensis
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Description
Low, stunted tree, or shrub-like;
Branchlets short, rather robust, short-hairy.
Leaves oblong to subobovate-elliptic, apex shortly attenuate or subacuminate, base broadly cuneate, the very base often obtuse, subcoriaceous, firm, younger ones very densely shortly stellate-hairy above, covered all over beneath with a tomentum of minor and larger stellate, brownish greyish hairs, large fascicled hairs on petiole and midrib below few or absent, mature ones glabrous and a little shining above, rather persistently greyish tomentulose beneath, finely serrate-dentate in the upper part, tips of the serratures usually callose, 5-8 by (2-)2.5-4 cm, midrib bold beneath, nerves in 9-11(-12) pairs, curved, excurrent or divided along or before the edge, raised beneath, reticulation rather faint;
Petals obovate-spathulate, minutely crenulate at apex, white, glabrous, (4-)5(-6) by c. 2.5 mm.
Ovary longish erect-tomentose;
Capsule depressed-globose, c. 3 mm ø.
Seeds oval, 1 mm.