华南蒲桃 hua nan pu tao

Syzygium buxifolium Hooker & Arnott var. austrosinense Merrill & L. M. Perry, J. Arnold Arbor. 19: 236. 1938.

Shrubs to trees, to 17 m tall, d.b.h. to 30 cm. Branchlets brown when dry, 4-angled. Petiole 2-5 mm; leaf blade elliptic, (2.5-)4-7 × (1-)2-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces greenish brown when dry, abaxially with raised glands, adaxially glandular, secondary veins 1.5-2 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 70° from midvein, abaxially slightly conspicuous, and adaxially inconspicuous, intramarginal veins less than 1 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex acute to slightly obtuse. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, cymes, 1.5-2.5 cm. Flower buds obovoid, ca. 4 mm. Hypanthium obconic, 2.5-3 mm. Calyx lobes 4, shortly triangular. Petals distinct, obovate, ca. 2.5 mm. Stamens 3-4 mm. Style 3-4 mm. Fruit black, globose, 6-7 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Aug.

● Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 200-800(-2300) m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang.