Compilation
Pittosporum spathicalyx

Shrub or small tree, 3–13 m. high; bole up to 15 cm. in diameter. Young branches hispidulous-pubescent. Leaves not crowded at ends of branches, with blade broadly lanceolate to obovate, together with petiole 7–11.5–15 cm. long, 2–3–4.5 cm. broad, ± acuminate, bluntish, tapering to an up to 15 mm. long petiole, dull green above, paler beneath, ± hispidulous-pubescent later glabrescent; midrib rather deeply impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves up to 12 on either side, unequal, prominulous, ± interconnected; reticulation dense, uniform, dark coloured beneath and colour disappearing only at a very late stage. Inflorescences terminal slender racemose panicles; all branches spreading ferrugineous pubescent; bracts minute, subulate, pubescent, early caducous. Flowers sweet-scented like Jasminum or Narcissus, white, cream, yellowish or greenish, on 3–5–8 mm. long densely ferrugineous pubescent pedicels. Calyx 3–3.3–4 mm. long, connate for 2–2.5–3 mm., enveloping the buds, early split down one side; lobes short, blunt, ciliolate. Petals linear, 5–6.5–8 mm. long, 1.5–1.75– 2 mm. broad, usually strongly reflexed. Fertile stamens 4–5.6–7 mm. long with 1.5–1.8–2 mm. long anthers; sterile stamens 3 mm. long with 0.75 mm. long anthers. Fertile gynoecium with short stipe and style 3.5 mm. long, scanty puberulous; sterile gynoecium 3–5–7 mm. long. Capsules (?4–)6–8-seeded; valves of ripe capsule up to 10 mm. in diameter, uniformly thin, dorsally flat-convex to weakly gibbous, finally spreading or somewhat reflexed. Fig. 1/7, p. 6.