广东木姜子 guang dong mu jiang zi

Evergreen shrubs, 1.5-3 m tall. Young branchlets gray-brown, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-7 mm, glabrous; leaf blade oblong or narrowly oblong, 4-11.5 × 1-3 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, pinninerved, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, base cuneate, apex slightly acute or obtuse. Umbels axillary, solitary, 3- or 4-flowered; peduncle very short, pubescent. Fruit ellipsoid, 7-8 × 4-5 mm, seated on cup-shaped perianth tube; fruiting pedicel ca. 3 mm, puberulent. Fr. Nov.

● Dense forests on mountains; below 100 m. C and S Guangdong.