Orophea hexandra - Andaman Orophea

Andaman Orophea is a shrub or small tree, 5-6 m tall; branches densely velvet-hairy when young. Leaves are ovate, ovate-lanceshaped to oblong-lanceshaped, rounded at base, tapering at tip, 10-13.5 x 3.5-6.3 cm, hairless above and softly velvet-hairy on midrib and nerves beneath; lateral nerves 7-9 pairs; leaf-stalks 2-3 mm long, velvet-hairy. Flowers are greenish white, about 6 mm long, in leaf-axils or supra-in leaf-axils, solitary or 2-3-flowered clusters; flower-stalks about 1 cm long, velvet-hairy; bracts few at base, one at the middle, subulate, velvet-hairy. Sepals are 3, ovate, about 1 mm long, densely velvet-hairy. Petals are 6 (3 + 3); outer petals ovate-heart-shaped, about 5 x 4 mm long, velvet-hairy; inner trapezoid with long claw, vaulted and cohering; limb about 7 mm long, hairless, except the velvet-hairy margin and tip. Stamens are 9 (3 + 6), about 1.5 mm long; outer row with 3 sterile ones and inner row with 6 fertile ones; connectives slightly projecting at top. Carpels 4 - 6, oblong, about 2 mm long, densely bristly, 2-ovuled; styles short; stigma spherical. Ripe carpels solitary, nearly stalkless, oblong, 2.5 - 3 cm long, curved and beak-shaped at tip, minutely appressed velvet-hairy; stalks about 1 cm long. Seed solitary, narrowly cylindric. Andaman Orophea is found in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Indo-china to Malesia. Flowering: December-January.