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Tarenna conferta (Benth.) Hiern
SUMMARY
A puberulous shrub, 2-4.5 m tall. Leaves oval or somewhat obovate, cuspidate-acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, chartaceous, glossy and glabrescent above, 7–18 x 2.5–7 cm or sometimes smaller; lateral veins 6–10 on each side of the midrib, slender, narrowly depressed on the upper surface; margins sub-reflexed; petioles ranging up to 1 in., shortly and appressedly pubescent; stipules deltoid, caudate-apiculate, 4–6 mm, erect. Flowers pentamerous, shortly pedicellate, in dense closely branched terminal cymes, fragrant, about 8.5 mm long exclusive of the style which is exserted as much. Calyx 3 mm long, shortly pubescent, green, acutely cleft. Corolla white or cream-coloured or greenish-white, glabrous outside pubescent inside; tube narrowly funnel-shaped; limb spreading, 12–17 mm diam., glabrous; lobes elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Anthers 3 mm long. Style pubescent below. Berry glabrate, 3 mm diam. or rather larger, pale green.
