贵州琼楠 gui zhou qiong nan

Small trees. Branchlets yellow-brown, slender, ca. 2 mm in diam., glabrous. Terminal buds ellipsoid-lanceolate, glabrous. Leaves opposite; petiole slender, 7-10 mm; leaf blade abaxially greenish, adaxially dark green and shiny, brown on both surfaces when dry, narrowly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 5-8(-10) × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, midrib abaxially elevated, adaxially impressed, lateral veins slender, 8 or 9 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces, reticulate veinlets dense and conspicuous, base cuneate or broadly cuneate but rarely subrotund, apex abruptly caudate, slightly oblique, rarely acuminate or obtuse. Inflorescences unknown. Infructescences 1-8.5 cm, glabrous. Fruits brown, ovoid or globose, 2.5-3 × 2.3-2.5 cm, smooth; fruiting pedicels slender, ca. 1.5 mm in diam.

● Dense forests on hills. Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan.