Notes

Single-stemmed small tree to 2,5m, more often main stem tilted, erect branches up to 3m tall growing from this. Leaves glossy, papery/plastic-like, hairy on veins below. Peduncle 3mm ("sessile flr") to 2cm long and multibracteate. Calyx purple as ovary, white inside tube, lobes paler with dark purple veins, emarginate or acute; 6-9mm long, 9-11mm wide. Flower bud ± purple at the tip, corolla hairy inside, tube 5-6mm wide, white. 5-6 faint purple lobes, inner edge darkest, 5-8%3-3,5mm, 1-1,5mm thick at tip. Heterostylous: Style 1,8cm, exserted 3mm in long-styles flower, anthers visible in throat of short styled flower. Fruit green, grooved between pyrenes, maturing sky-blue and ballon-globose, up to 2,5cm long, 2,8cm wide, crowned by bluish purple calyx. Pyrenes fox red when fresh, pit whitish. Gently sloping valey bottom between small rivers. Closed conopy 20-30m high with Syzygium, Cussonia, Apodytes, Ochna, Schrebera. Understory with Lasianthus, Dracena, ferns and other climbers. Sheet 1.