Toothed-Leaf Gomphia is a woody erect shrub. Leaves
are alternate, 6-16 x 2.5-5 cm, elliptic-oblong, base pointed, margins
sharply saw-toothed, tip shortly tapering, shiny, leathery, lateral
nerves many, close, parallel, united into an intramarginal vein.
Stipules are 2, lanceshaped. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils or at
branch-ends in a raceme or panicle. Flowers are about 1.5 cm across,
bracts triangular. Sepals are 5, elliptic-ovate. Petals are 5, bright
yellow, narrowly obovate. Disc lobed. Stamens are 10, nearly stalkless,
anthers linear, splitting by terminal pores. Ovary is deeply 4-5-lobed,
reddish, ovule 1-per locule. Drupes are 4-5, seated on disc,
kidney-shaped, reddish brown. Toothed-Leaf Gomphia is found in
Indo-Malesia. Flowering: All year.