Neraudia angulata var. dentata is an erect shrub that grows to a height of 1.5–3 meters. The branches are pubescent with erect and somewhat appressed hairs. The leaves are simple and alternate, with blades that are elliptic, elliptic-ovate, or ovate, measuring 7–15 cm long and 3–5.5 cm wide. The leaf apex is long-acuminate or acute, and the base is cuneate to rounded. The upper surfaces are sparsely silky pubescent, with hairs that are somewhat spreading or appressed, 0.2–0.4 mm long, while the lower surfaces have primarily somewhat spreading hairs, are grayish to greenish, thin, and have disciform cystoliths. The margins are coarsely dentate above the middle, and the leaves are palmately 3-veined from the base. The petioles are 0.8–3 cm long and pubescent with appressed and spreading hairs. Stipules are small and intrapetiolar. The flowers are arranged in axillary clusters, with staminate flowers on pedicels 0–1 mm long and pistillate flowers sessile. The flowers are unisexual, and the plants are dioecious and actinomorphic (radially symmetric). The calyx of the staminate flowers is silky pubescent with ascending hairs, with four boat-shaped lobes that are 2–3.5 mm long, coherent in bud, and separating at anthesis and pilose. The pistillate calyx is conspicuously angled and silky pubescent with ascending to erect hairs. It also has some short, erect, uncinate hairs. The apex is 4-toothed, with acuminate to long-acuminate teeth. The corolla (petals) is absent. The staminate flowers have four stamens, with staminal filaments folded elastically in the bud and reflexed when pollen is shed, strap-shaped, and 2–5 mm long. The anthers are reniform, dithecal, and open by longitudinal slits. The pollen is white. The ovary of the pistillate flowers is superior, pseudomonomerous, and 1-celled, with one ovule and basal placentation. There is one style, and the stigma is 2–8 mm long, lacking receptive hairs on one surface. The staminate flower ovary is vestigial and sterile. The fruit is an achene, 1.5–2 mm long, angled, surrounded by the conspicuously angled and ridged, fleshy calyx. The apical portion is conical and not separated from the basal portion by a constriction. There is one seed per achene, which is ovoid. It is found in diverse mesic forests between 450 – 825 meters.
Bean-shaped (Reniform): Resembling the shape of a kidney or bean.
Square or Oblong: Angular shape with all sides more or less equal or longer than wide.
Triangular: Three-sided shape, broadest below the middle.
Elliptic: Rounded at both ends. shaped like an ellipse or oval.
Ovate or Obovate: egg-shaped, broader at one end.
Linear: Extremely long and narrow, with sides usually parallel.
Round: Appears circular, with length and width roughly the same.
Cardioid (Heart-Shaped): One edge has a prominent double curve into two lobes.
Cylindrical: A cylinder with parallel sides and a circular cross-section.
Discoid: Resembling a disc or plate with two relatively flat surfaces.
Fusiform: Spindle-shaped, tapering at both ends.
Globose: Spherical.
Lenticular: Resembling a lens with two convex surfaces.
Ovoid: Egg-shaped.
Plano-convex: Having a flat ventral (planar) surface and a curved dorsal (convex) surface.
Polygonal: Having more than three flat faces meeting at angles.
Sectoroid: Resembling a segment of an orange with two relatively flat faces and one curved face.
Subglobose/ellipsoid: Inflated shape but less than spherical.
Trigonous: Having three faces that meet at a distinct angle; triangular in cross-section.
Endangered species (E) are species that are so rare they’re in danger of becoming extinct.
Threatened species (T) are species that are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of their range.
Species of Concern (SOC) are species about which there are some concerns regarding status and threats, but insufficient information is available to list the species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Plant Extinction Prevention (PEP) is a state status for rare plants that focuses its efforts on species that have fewer than 50 remaining wild individuals.
Orthodox seeds (desiccation-tolerant): can be dried to an internal seed moisture of less than 12% water and stored at freezing temperatures.
Intermediate seeds (temperature-sensitive) tend to age faster than orthodox seeds and may have only a 5-year lifespan when stored at -20°C. They are recommended for storage at 5°C.
Recalcitrant seeds (desiccation-sensitive): cannot be stored in a conventional freezer as they cannot survive after drying and/or freezing at -20°C. They are recommended for cryopreservation storage.