Prunus pullei
Prunus pullei is a species of Prunus native to the highlands of New Guinea. It is a small tree, usually 15m but reaching 24m tall, with rough, lenticellate brown bark. At higher altitudes it takes on a more shrubby growth form.
Description
Its stiff-coriaceous leaves are elliptic to oblong, 1.5 to 5cm wide and 2 to 12cm long. Their bases are acute to rounded, with often revolute margins, and obtuse, often retuse apices. There are 5 to 9 pairs of nerves, looped and joining close to the margin. The young leaves are densely hairy and usually remain hairy beneath when mature. There are usually two flat basal glands. Its free stipules are narrowly triangular, 0.7 to 1.8mm wide by 2.5 to 7mm long.The flowers have 15 to 40 stamens with glabrous filaments up to 7mm long, and anthers 0.4 to 1 mmlong. The ovaries are densely hairy, with basally hairy styles up to 5mm long. The fruits are subglobular to transversely ellipsoid, 6 to 11mm by 7 to 11.5mm, with hairy exocarps and glabrous endocarps. When ripe the fruits are shining purplish-black, possessing a calyx underneath the fruit 1.5 to 4 mm in diameter. In specimens from higher altitudes this calyx is enlarged up to 8mm in diameter. Its seeds have glabrous testa.