Nematolepis squamea

Shrub or tree to 12 m high; branchlets angular or terete, smooth to glandular-verrucose, silvery-lepidote. Leaves coriaceous to chartaceous, narrowly to broadly elliptic, apex acuminate to obtuse, rounded or retuse, upper surface smooth, glabrous, midrib impressed, lower surface densely silvery-lepidote, margin entire; petiole to 1 mm long. Inflorescence an axillary, compact or loose cyme, up to half as long as leaves, (1–)3–20-flowered; pedicel 1.5–5 mm long. Sepals free, deltoid, glandular, glabrous, c. 1 mm long; petals imbricate, elliptic, 4–5 mm long, glabrous, gland-dotted, white; stamens subequal to petals, anther yellow; disc prominent; ovary glabrous. Follicles slightly spreading, c. 3 mm high.