Compilation
Echites pubescens

Shrub or tree 0.6–18 m high, deciduous; trunk 12–25 cm in diameter; bark smooth, lenticellate or rough and corky, pale to dark grey; wood soft; branchlets pubescent, rarely glabrous. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate to elliptic, 1.7–23 cm long, 1.3–11.5 cm wide, acuminate or acute at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, pubescent to glabrous; petiole 2–12 mm long, often pubescent. Inflorescences seemingly axillary or leaf-opposed, sometimes terminal, mostly pubescent; bracts 1.5–4.5 mm long; peduncle 0.9–1.7 cm long; pedicels 0.3–3 cm long. Flowers with sepals elliptic to linear, 2–12 mm long; corolla tube white, 9–19 mm long, outside with ordinary and glandular hairs, rarely glabrous; lobes white, narrowly triangular, 10–24(–30) mm long, 3–8 mm wide, pubescent and ciliate or glabrous; stamens inserted at 1.5–2.5 mm from the base of the tube; pistil 1.8–3.1 mm long; style 0.3–1.2 mm long. Fruits pale grey to dark brown, dotted with white, 20–38 cm long, 2–9 mm in diameter; seeds 9–16 mm long; tufts of hairs 25–45 mm long. Fig. 31 (p. 91).