Common name: Hairy Psychotria
Psychotria loniceroides Sieber ex DC. APNI* 
Description: Shrub or small tree to c. 5 m high; young growth, leaves and inflorescence with white or rusty hairs.
Leaves mostly ovate, elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, mostly 4.5–14.5 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, apex shortly acuminate or acute, margins ± sinuate or irregular, lamina softly hairy, lateral veins prominent, domatia often present; petiole 2–23 mm long.
Flowers sessile in terminal heads at ends of branches. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long. Corolla 4–5 mm long, white; lobes usually 5, up to as long as tube.
Fruit ellipsoid, 6–8 mm long, whitish to yellowish, crowned by persistent calyx, longitudinally ribbed and furrowed.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in warmer rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest; widespread, north from Bega district.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by S. McCune
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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