假赤楠 jia chi nan

Shrubs or trees, to 3 m tall. Branchlets grayish white when dry, terete, slender. Petiole 3-4 mm; leaf blade elliptic, 3-4 × 1.5-2 cm, leathery, both surfaces olive green when dry, abaxially with raised glands, adaxially not glossy and with numerous small impressed glands, secondary veins ca. 2 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 45° from midvein, abaxially slightly visible, and adaxially inconspicuous, reticulate veins inconspicuous, intramarginal veins ca. 0.5 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences axillary, cymes, ca. 1 cm, few-flowered. Flower buds 3-4 mm. Fruit globose, 1-1.2 cm in diam., 1-seeded; persistent calyx limbs ca. 1 × 2.5 mm. Fr. Nov.

● Dense forests; low elevations. Hainan (Baoting).