Viburnum australe

Viburnum australe, known by the common name Mexican arrowwood, is a woody plant in the family Adoxaceae. It is found in northeastern Mexico and western Texas.

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Viburnum australe grows as a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub, reaching 1–3 meters (3.3–9.8 ft) in height. Branches angled, dull, glabrous, pale; branchlets similar, sparsely glandular; leaves opposite, petiolate, the petiole up to 1 cm (0.39 in) long, glandular, hispidulous, stipulate, the stipules persistent, borne on the petiole about 1.5–2 mm (0.059–0.079 in) above its base, linear, up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long, glandular and hispidulous; blades broadly ovate to suborbicular, the larger 6 cm (2.4 in) long by 4.5 cm (1.8 in) wide, cordate or subcordate at base, abruptly short-acuminate at apex, conspicuously dentate (the teeth broad, extending to the middle of the blade or below), ciliate, above sparsely but uniformly strigose (the hairs all simple), glabrate with age, beneath glandular, hispidulous on the veins and veinlets, densely bearded in the vein axils; lateral veins 2 to 5, straight, reaching the margin; peduncle up to 3.5 cm (1.4 in) long, conspicuously glandular, bearing a few stellate hairs, these with numerous spreading branches; bracts at base of inflorescence conspicuous, up to 1.5 cm (0.59 in) long, 2 mm (0.079 in) broad at middle, narrowed at base, glandular and sparsely pubescent, the hairs both simple and stellate; cyme up to 5.7 cm (2.2 in) wide and 3 cm (1.2 in) long, twice compound, the primary rays 6 to 8, very densely glandular; bractlets of cyme linear, glandular, sparingly ciliate; calyx tube 2–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) long, cylindric, densely glandular; calyx lobes about 1 mm (0.039 in) long, acute, ciliate with long simple hairs, glabrous on the back, eglandular; corolla 3.5–4 mm (0.14–0.16 in) long, glabrous; stamens slightly exserted, the filaments about 4 mm (0.16 in) long; style glabrous; fruit much flattened, about 1 cm (0.39 in) long, 8 mm (0.31 in) wide, and 3 mm (0.12 in) thick, fleshy, the endocarp 3-sulcate on one face (the central groove very slight, the lateral pronounced) and lightly 2-sulcate on the other, with no ventral intrusion.