Compilation
Ouratea nutans

Shrub or small tree 2–6 (12) m. high, with brown bark and spreading or rounded crown; branches rather stout, olive-green, ± compressed and angular or striate at first, becoming yellowish- to orange-brown and polished. Leaves petiolate; lamina (8) 10·7–23 × (3) 3·6–6·7 (7) cm., oblanceolate or obovate to oblong or elliptic, acute or shortly and abruptly acuminate to rounded at the apex, with margin serrulate to undulate and sharply curved-serrate, cuneate or attenuate at the base, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, with ascending main veins linked by numerous ± widely spreading secondary veins and tertiary reticulations prominent above but less so or plane below; petiole (2) 4–6 (7) mm. long, ± stout, sometimes enlarged towards the base; stipules 3–5 mm. long, free or partly or completely united interpetiolarly, caducous. Flowers solitary or paired or more usually in clusters of 3–8 in axils of deciduous bracts on a terminal or axillary paniculate inflorescence (usually shorter than surrounding leaves), with 1–4 (6) short or ± elongated spreading lateral branches; rhachis stout, olive-green, compressed, angular, striate; peduncle present or not; pedicels 7–16 mm. long in fruit, longer to shorter than the sepals, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/3. Sepals 5–7 (8) mm. long in flower, lanceolate, subacute, becoming 7–9 (10) mm. long, red and ascending in fruit. Petals bright yellow, (5) 7–11 (13) × (2·5) 3–4 mm., oblanceolate to obovate, with apex rounded or refuse. Stamens with anthers (3) 4 (6) mm. long, orange-yellow, ± rugose and narrowed above. Carpels 5. Drupelets 6–8 × 4–6 mm., ellipsoid-cylindric, ± compressed, not carinate.