Description
(
anglais
)
fourni par eFloras
Trees. Bark grayish black. Branchlets yellowish brown. Winter buds ovoid, ca. 4 mm, sparsely white or rusty pubescent, subglabrous. Petiole 1--1.3 cm, slender; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, obovate, or suborbicular, 11--17 X 5.5--7 cm, submembranous, both surfaces sparsely appressed pubescent but glabrescent, abaxially drying pale gray-green with dark veinlets, adaxially blackish, base cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate, lateral veins 5--7 per side, reticulate veinlets flat and clearly defined. Flowers not seen. Fruit solitary, subsessile. Fruiting calyx ca. 1.8(--2) cm in diam., divided to below middle, ± spreading, appressed rusty pubescent; lobes 4, ovate, ca. 9 X 7 mm, apex obtuse. Berries yellow, subglobose, ca. 2.5 cm in diam. Seeds ca. 5, brown, ± D-shaped, strongly compressed, 9--10 X 6--7 X ca. 2.5 mm. Fr. Oct-Nov. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jan.
- licence
- cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
- droit d’auteur
- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
