Compilation
Chadara arborea

Shrub or small tree to 9 m tall; young stems glabrescent to ferruginous-pubescent, sometimes ± villous. Leaves ovate, oblong or obovate-oblong, 1.8–14 cm long, 1–7.4 cm wide, ± truncate to obtuse at the apex, rarely acute or shortly acuminate, obliquely asymmetric at the base, margins shallowly dentate to ± entire, ± glabrous and shiny green above, whitish tomentellous beneath with veins sometimes less densely so and brownish; petiole 3–8 mm long. Inflorescence a 1–3-flowered cyme, 1–3 in a leaf-axil, densely pubescent becoming glabrous, sometimes covered with long ferruginous hairs; peduncle 2–13 mm long; pedicels 5–13 mm long. Flowers yellow; sepals 11–16 mm long, yellow inside, sometimes reddish outside; petals 4–10 mm long, oblong-ovate and notched at the apex to broadly ovate and acute or ± subcircular. Androgynophore glabrous for ± 2.5 mm at the base, densely pubescent and produced up to 1.5 mm above the node; stamens 4–8 mm long; ovary 2–3 mm long, densely hairy; style 6–8 mm long. Fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 7–15 mm long, 7–15 mm wide, shortly stellate-pubescent becoming glabrescent, maturing orange-red. Fig. 8 (p. 54).