柱果琼楠 zhu guo qiong nan

Shrubs to small trees. Branchlets gray, slightly striate; young branchlets and terminal buds densely yellow-brown tomentose. Leaves alternate or subopposite; petiole 7-13 mm, densely yellow-brown tomentose or later glabrate; leaf blade abaxially brownish or purple-brown when dry, adaxially gray-brown, obovate, obovate-oblong, or oblong, 15-24 × 7-11 cm, papery, densely or sparsely yellow-brown puberulent along midrib and veins on both surfaces, densely and minutely whitish punctate and verruculose, midrib abaxially elevated, adaxially impressed, midrib and lateral veins yellow-brown pubescent on both surfaces, lateral veins 12-16 pairs, abaxially more conspicuously elevated than adaxially, interconnected by transverse veins near leaf margin, veins laxly reticulate, slightly elevated on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate to subrounded, apex acute, shortly caudate-acuminate, obtuse, or subrounded. Inflorescences unknown. Infructescences short. Fruits black, cylindric, up to 5 × 1.5 cm, conspicuously plicate, scattered verruculose; fruiting pedicels thickened, ca. 3 mm in diam. Fr. Jan.

● Valley forests. SE Yunnan (Pingbian).