Rhodamnia angustifolia

Description

Rhodamnia angustifolia is a single or multi-stemmed tree from 4 to 10 m tall. The bark of the main trunk is smooth but furrowed and somewhat flaking in small angular patches. The leaves are discolorous and are trinerved, mostly narrowly elliptic but occasionally narrowly obovate or falcate, 20 to 70 (-85)mm long by (3-)5 to 12 (-15)mm wide, they are cuneate at the base and obtuse to acute at the apex with flat margins. The adaxial surface is sparsely sericeous becoming glabrous with the oil glands scattered to dense, but usually invisible to the naked eye. The abaxial surface is very shortly and densely tomentose, the lateral, tertiary and intramarginal veins usually prominent. The petioles are 2.5 to 4 mm long and are channelled. The inflorescence is a cluster of 2 to 7 flowers on short shoots less than 1 mm long in the axils of the leaves or leaf scars. The peduncles are rigid and up to 1.5 mm long and shortly sericeous. There are 4 sepals which are distinct in bud, the lobes are free, 0.3 to 0.5 mm long, broadly ovate with the apex rounded to obtuse, sparsely short sericeous above and below, persistent on the fruit. There are 4 petals, alternating with the sepals, yellowish-white in colour and about 2.5 mm long by 3 mm wide, broadly ovate to oblate with a rounded apex, glabrous below. There are 65 to 75 multiseriate stamens, folded centrewards in bud, the filaments 2 to 4 mm long. The style is 4.5 to 5 mm long and is mostly straight. The fruit is a berry that is sub-globose to globose, rounded at the base, 3 to 5 mm long by 4 to 6 mm wide, glabrous