Taxillus reflexilobus Rajasek. in J. Swamy Bot. Club 3(4): 162, ff. 7 - 8. 1986.

Branches covered with rusty brown candelabra hairs mixed with stellate hairs when young, glabrous when old, terete. Leaves opposite, elliptic-ovate, rounded at base, acute at apex, thickened along margins, 5.5 - 5.8 x 2.4 - 2.8 cm, coriaceous, hairy as on branches on both surfaces when young, glabrous when old; lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs, curvipinnate, obscure on both surfaces; petioles 2.5 - 3 mm long, hairy when young, glabrous when old. Inflorescences axillary, simple dichasia; peduncles 2 or 3 in each axil, each with 2 or 3 flowers, 1 - 1.5 mm long, glabrous; flower buds spathulate, 2.5 - 3 cm long, sparsely hairy excepting corolla. Flowers 4- merous, 3.3 - 3.7 cm long; pedicels 2.5 - 3 mm long, puberulous to glabrous; bract elliptic, 0.6 - 1 x 0.5 - 0.6 mm, rusty pubescent. Calyculus ca 0.2 mm long, obscurely 4-lobed. Petals 4, united; tube terete at base, with median split up to one-third the length, 2.3 - 2.6 mm long; lobes 4, elliptic, 5 - 6 mm long. Stamens 4; filaments 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; anthers ellipsoid, 3.7 - 4 mm long. Ovary oblong-cylindric, 2 - 2.5 mm long, sparsely rusty stellate hairy; style tetragonous; stigma club-shaped. Fruits oblong, minutely warted, rusty pubescent (young fruits ca 2 x 1 mm).

Fl. & Fr. Sept. - Nov.

Distrib. India: On hilly regions, at ca 1800 m altitude. Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

Endemic.

Notes. Vessels with lateral perforations, thin-walled, pittings alternate, large, elliptic; fibres thick-walled with narrow lumen, without pits.

Pollen 3-lobed; P - 23 (24.8) 27 µm; E - 42 (43.8) 46 µm; P/E - 0.57 µm; ex. 1.5 µm; col. 0.5 µm.