南仁山新木姜子 nan ren shan xin mu jiang zi

Small trees. Young branchlets and petioles glabrous. Leaves clustered at apex of branchlet; petiole 6-10 mm; leaf blade oblong, 3.5-6 × 1.3-2.3 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous abaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, base obtuse to acute, apex obtuse. Pedicels ca. 3 mm. Perianth tube densely hispid; segments 4, oblong, 2.5-3 mm, apex obtuse or acute, ciliate. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments pilose at base, of 3rd whorls each with 2 glands at base; rudimentary pistil cylindric. Female flowers: staminodes 6, of 1st and 2nd whorls linear-clavate, hispid, of 3rd whorls sagittate, each with 2 glands at base; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; style hispid. Fruit ovoid, glabrous.

● S Taiwan.