Monotoca billawinica

Dense shrub or small tree to c. 4.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaves elliptic, c. 9–17(–26) mm long, 2.1–4.2 mm wide, mucronate, flat to convex, glabrous, lower surface distinctly whitish; margins smooth, plane to slightly recurved; petioles glabrous abaxially. Flowers 2–8 in axillary spikes or the lowermost solitary, pedunculate; lowermost spikes with peduncle 0.6–2.7 mm long, sterile bracts absent or very rarely 1–2; bracts, bracteoles and sepals obtuse; bracts persistent, 0.3–1.1 mm long; bracteoles 0.8–1.4 mm long; sepals 1.2–1.9 mm long; corolla whitish-cream, campanulate, 1.6–2.3 mm long in female flowers; 2.4–3.1 mm long in males; corolla lobes glabrous or occasionally papillose, c. equal to tube; anthers 1.2–1.9 mm long, exserted from corolla tube at maturity; ovary plus style 0.9–1.3 mm long. Fruit ovoid to spherical, c. 2.5–3 mm long, red-orange at maturity. Flowers Feb.–Apr.