Callistachys lanceolata

Erect shrub or small tree 4–8 m tall; stems silky-haired when young. Leaves in whorls of 3, sometimes with some leaves alternate or opposite, narrowly ovate to oblong, or ovate to elliptic, 5–14 cm long, 6–23 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate; petiole to c. 5 mm long; stipules linear, to c. 4 mm long, sometimes toothed. Inflorescence many-flowered, often branched; pedicels 3–6 mm long, silky; bracts narrow-triangular to triangular, 2–6 mm long, trilobed; bracteoles similar to bracts. Calyx 7–10 mm long, silky, teeth much longer than tube; corolla 10–12 mm long; ovules 6–12. Pod 10–15 mm long, surface reticulately patterned, acuminate, silky-haired; seeds usually 2–6, reniform, c. 2 mm long, mottled. Flowers Sep.–Jan.