Memecylon sect. Buxifolia R.D. Stone

Stone, Robert Douglas, 2022, Revised treatment of Memecylon section Buxifolia (Melastomataceae) in Madagascar, Candollea 77 (2), pp. 173-191 : 175

Memecylon sect. Buxifolia R.D. Stone in Taxon 63: 557. 2014.

Typus: Memecylon buxifolium Blume

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, 1 – 8 m high (rarely to 17 m); branchlets with successive nodes alternating between normal leaves and reduced, often inflorescence-bearing bracts (this feature absent in some Malagasy species with short internodes); young branchlets rounded to quadrangular or narrowly quadrangular-alate. Leaves subcoriaceous to coriaceous, subsessile or petiolate, drying brownish, apparently 1-nerved or ± conspicuously 3-nerved from the base, transverse veins obscure. Cymules 1–2 cm long, 1 –3(–9)-flowered, solitary or geminate in the leaf axils, at the intervening bracteate nodes, or at the recently defoliated nodes below the leaves. Flowers with corolla white, in bud with apex rounded to apiculate or subacute; petals broadly elliptic to broadly ovate or suborbicular; anthers versatile, yellow (white in some South African species), dorsal oil-gland present on anther connectives. Fruits varying from distinctly ellipsoid to ± globose.