Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Description: Shrub to 4.5 m high. Leaves linear, narrow-elliptic or oblanceolate, mostly 2–7 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, often mucronate, base attenuate, margins entire, surfaces glabrous; petiole to 2 mm long. Flowers solitary or clustered, often on short lateral branches; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Sepals 5, c. 0.7 mm long. Petals 5, c. 1.6 mm long. Capsule globose or obovoid, 4–6 mm long, yellowish, 2-valved; seed 1, rarely 2, more than half enclosed in aril.
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