Mycetia malayana - Malay Mycetia

Malay Mycetia is a single-stemmed, often unbranched shrub or treelet, up to 1 m tall; young parts hairy, soon becoming hairless; bark shiny white. Stipules are lanceshaped, 4-6 mm long. Leaves are usually crowded near top of stem, slightly unequal; leaf-stalks 1-1.5 cm long, slightly winged to base; blade membranous, inverted-lanceshaped to elliptic-lanceshaped, 8-20 x 2.5-6 cm, gradually narrowed to the base, tip tapering, pale green; 10-20 pairs of veins, hairs on the nerves beneath. Flowers are borne in many branched cymes, at branch-ends, many-flowered, up to about 7 cm long, branches slender; bracts minute, 3-4 mm long; flower-cluster-stalk 2.5-3.5 mm long. Flowers are 5-6 merous; flower-stalks slender, 4-8 mm long. Sepals triangular, about 2 mm long, margins beset with stalked colleters. Flowers are 4-5 mm long; tube urn-shaped, green, 2-3 mm long, hairless on both surfaces, throat hairy; petals triangular, 1.0-1.2 mm long, shortly hairy on both surfaces. Stamens are nearly stalkless, filaments 0.2-0.3 mm long, anthers 0.8-1.0 mm long, inserted near below throat of the tube, style 0.3-0.4 mm long. Malay Mycetia is found in Bangladesh, Borneo, Malaya, Thailand and NE India.