Alyxia oblongata
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Description
Erect shrub or treelet to 2 m high.
Branchlets weakly angled, densely lenticellate to no lenticels, glabrous to densely and minutely puberulent, sometimes glabrescent.
Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4;
Inflorescence terminal or, rarely, axillary;
Sepals not fleshy, ovate or narrowly ovate, 1.8-2.6 by 0.9-1.5 mm, 1.4-2.6 times as long as wide, apex acute or acuminate, not reflexed, glabrous, ciliate.
Stamens inserted at 3.2-5.9 mm from corolla base which is 0.37-0.58 of tube length;
Ovaries 0.5-0.7 mm high, sparsely or densely pubescent all over;
Fruit red;
Seeds c. 5.3 by 3.9 by 3 mm.