Lycianthes grandifolia

Description. Shrub, 2 - 3 m tall, erect. Indument of light yellow (sometimes appearing tan or off-white), uniseriate, multicellular, simple, eglandular, ascending-appressed to spreading trichomes 0.1 - 1.5 mm long. Stems green, angled when young, sparsely to moderately pubescent, somewhat compressed and ribbed when dried in a plant press, becoming brown and woody with age; upper sympodial branching points monochasial or dichasial. Leaves simple, the leaves of the upper sympodia usually paired and unequal in size, the larger ones with blades 8 - 22 x 5 - 12 cm, the smaller ones with blades 3 - 9 x 2 - 4.5 cm, the leaf pairs similar in shape, the blades ovate (often widely so), thin chartaceous, sparsely pubescent, ciliate along the margin, the base usually long attenuate (cuneate), sometimes oblique, the margin entire, usually irregularly undulate, the apex acuminate, the petiole 0.2 - 5 cm long, those of the longer leaves 2 cm long or longer, the larger leaf blades with 5 - 6 primary veins on each side of the midvein. Flowers in groups of 2 - 8, axillary, oriented horizontally; peduncles absent; pedicels 10 - 25 mm long and erect in flower, sparsely to moderately pubescent, mature fruiting pedicels not yet seen; calyx 2.5 - 3.5 mm long, 3 - 4 mm in diameter, obconic to campanulate, sparsely to moderately pubescent, the margin truncate, with 10 spreading linear appendages 2 - 7.5 mm long (at least some appendages on a calyx 4 mm long or longer), emerging 0.25 - 0.5 mm below the calyx rim; mature fruiting calyx not yet seen; corolla 0.8 - 1.6 cm long, rotate in orientation, mostly entire in outline (with shallow notches), with abundant interpetalar tissue, white, glabrous adaxially, the abaxial side of the lobes moderately puberulent near the major veins; stamens unequal, straight, the four short filaments 1 - 2 mm long, the one long filament 3 - 4.5 mm long, glabrous, the anthers 3 - 4 mm long, lanceolate, free of one another, yellow, glabrous, poricidal at the tips, the pores ovate, the pores of the longest stamen dehiscing toward the style, the pores of the shorter stamens dehiscing distally or away from the style, not opening into longitudinal slits; pistil with glabrous ovary, the style ca. 7 mm long, linear, glabrous, the stigma capitate, decurrent down two sides, slightly lobed. Fruit a berry, 4 - 5 mm long, 4 - 5 mm in diameter, globose to depressed-globose, green when immature (mature fruit not yet seen), glabrous, lacking sclerotic granules. Seeds 10 - 30 per fruit, only seen when immature, mature size and details not yet known, not notched.