Clethra hendersonii
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Description
Slender, small or medium-sized, few-branched tree;
Branchlets rather slender, dilutely rusty-stellate-tomentellous distally.
Leaves elliptic-oblong or elliptic, sometimes subovate-elliptic, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate and slightly inequilateral, subcoriaceous, dark green and dull above, paler and shining below, flush reddish, denticulate-serrulate, 8-10(-12) by 4-5.5(-6) cm, young ones stellate-puberulous, early glabrate above, set with sparse simple hairs at midrib and moreover ± laxly with small stellate hairs at midrib, nerves and veins below, mature ones finally glabrous, nerves (10-)11-13 pairs, curved-ascendent, raised beneath, reticulation faint;
Petals obovate, apex erose, spreading, white, slightly fragrant, glabrous on both faces, sparsely fimbriate, (5-)6-7 by (3-)4-5 mm.
Ovary subsericeous-tomentose;
Capsule depressed-globose, 4 by 5 mm, sub-tended by the spreading sepals, Seeds oblong-ovoid, c. 1.5 mm.