Perrottetia arborescens (F.Muell.) Loes.

Loesener, L.E.T. (1893) Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3(5) : 220.

Seldom exceeding 30 cm dbh.

Leaf blades about 4-12 x 2.5-5 cm tending to be alternate and not spirally arranged on the twigs. Foveoles present on the midrib and occasionally on the lateral veins. Fine oak grain in the twigs.

Sepals about 1-1.2 mm long. Petals deltoid, about 0.7-0.9 mm long, puberulous. Disk cupular, about 1.5 mm diam. Staminal filaments about 0.1-0.2 mm long, attached to the margin of the disk. Ovary glabrous, ovules 2 per locule.

Fruits globular or depressed globular, about 6-12 mm diam. Seed +/- globose, about 5.5-6 mm diam. Testa smooth. Embryo small, about 1 mm long.

Cotyledons obovate, emarginate with a small gland at the apex of the midrib. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf blade elliptic to obovate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous, underside usually with crater-like foveoles along midrib; stipules small, triangular. Seed germination time 47 to 115 days.

Endemic to NEQ. Altitudinal range from 700-1200 m. Grows in upland and mountain rain forest.