Abrahamia antongilensis

Description Trees 8 - 10 m tall; young twigs covered with dense, whitish sericeous indument. Leaves alternate, clustered at the end of branches; blade oblanceolate to obovate, 7 - 17 3 3 - 6 cm, chartaceous, apex abruptly acuminate, the acumen 10 - 15 mm long, margin undulate and very slightly revolute, base cuneate, adaxial surface glabrous or with scattered whitish sericeous indument, abaxial surface covered with dense whitish, appressed sericeous indument when younger, much less dense on older leaves, venation semicraspedodromous, midvein prominent abaxially, secondary veins 25 - 35 pairs, 2 - 7 mm apart, forming a wide angle with the midvein (almost perpendicular from the base to the leaf mid-section), raised on both surfaces, tertiary veins visible on both surfaces; petiole 10 - 18 mm long, c. 1.5 mm in diam., canaliculate on adaxial surface, covered with whitish sericeous indument. Inflorescence short, terminal, a panicle, c. 1.8 cm long, axes covered with dense, appressed indument. Male flowers unknown. Female flowers 5 - merous, small, c. 3 mm long, subtended by a very small bract with dense indument; pedicel c. 3 mm long, densely sericeous; calyx lobes small, widely ovate, 1 3 1 mm, valvate, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface pubescent; corolla lobes ovate, 2.5 3 1.5 mm, thick, imbricate, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface pubescent; staminodes 5; disk cupuliform, c. 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous; ovary slightly ovoid to spherical, c. 1 3 1 mm, glabrous; style short, thick, c. 1 mm long, glabrous, stigmas capitate. Fruits 2.5 - 3.5 3 1.7 - 2 cm, ellipsoid, glabrous, with longitudinal striations.