Taxonomy
Maesopsis eminii Engl.
Nomenclature
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Family: RhamnaceaeGenus: Maesopsis
Media
SUMMARY
Trees (5–)15–25(–42) m tall; trunk (l–)2–5(–10) dm thick; bark silvery grey with vertical twisted furrowing; slash red outside, yellow near the wood; heartwood yellowish, darkening on exposure to reddish brown. Year-old branchlets glabrescent, smooth, brownish, lenticellate; youngest branches dark, puberulent to nearly glabrous. Leaf-blades ovate-elliptic to oblong-ovate, 7–14 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, lustrous above, paler beneath, glabrous except when quite young, at base rounded to subcordate, acuminate, at margins with rounded ± salient teeth or projections 0.3–5 mm long, on each side of midrib with (6–)7–10 secondary nerves; petioles 6–12 mm long, puberulent to glabrescent. Stipules 2–6 mm long, puberulent. Cymes 1–5 cm long, many-flowered; primary peduncle 4–25 mm long; ultimate pedicels l–3(–6) mm long. Sepals ± 1.5 mm long. Drupe (only 1, 2 or rarely 3 fruits set per inflorescence) obovoid or narrowly so, 22–30 mm long, 10–16 mm thick, the style and stigma persistent; outer portion of mesocarp fleshy.