短棒蒲桃 duan bang pu tao

Eugenia baviensis Gagnepain, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 3: 317. 1918.

Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets grayish white when dry, terete. Petiole 5-6 mm; leaf blade oblong to elliptic, 9-15 × 3.5-5 cm, subpapery, abaxially glabrous, adaxially dark when dry, secondary veins 14-19 on each side of midvein, 6-8 mm apart, and at an angle of ca. 75° from midvein, tertiary veins usually parallel to secondary veins, intramarginal veins 3-4 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex acute. Inflorescences axillary, corymbs, 1.5-2 cm, 4-9-flowered; peduncle ca. 5 mm. Flower buds 1-1.2 cm. Hypanthium shortly clavate, 6-8 mm, base narrow. Calyx lobes 4, shortly triangular, ca. 1 mm. Petals coherent. Stamens 3-4 mm. Style ca. 3 mm. Fruit clavoid to long ovoid, ca. 10 × 5 mm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Jul.

Rain forests; 200-600 m. Yunnan (Hekou) [Vietnam].