棒花蒲桃 bang hua pu tao

Eugenia claviflora Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., ed. 1832, 2: 488. 1832; Acmenosperma claviflorum (Roxburgh) Kausel; E. leptantha Wight; Syzygium leptanthum (Wight) Niedenzu.

Shrubs or trees, 3-15 m tall. Branchlets grayish white to grayish brown when dry, terete, slightly compressed. Petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade narrowly oblong, oblong, or elliptic, 8-21 × 3-8 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale when dry, adaxially slightly glossy green to yellowish green when dry, adaxially with numerous impressed small glands, secondary veins 18-25 on each side of midvein, 1-7 mm apart, and slowly ascending into margin, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex slightly acute, obtuse, or acuminate and with an obtuse tip. Inflorescences axillary or sometimes lateral below leaves, cymes or umbels, ca. 2.5 cm, 3-9-flowered. Flowers pink or red. Hypanthium clavate, 0.8-1.5 cm, basally narrow and long, ribbed. Calyx lobes 4, shortly semiorbicular, shallowly wavy. Petals 4, distinct or coherent, ovate to rounded, ca. 3 mm. Stamens 4-7 mm. Style 1.5-2 cm, apex sharp. Fruit purplish red to black, long ellipsoid to long pot-shaped, 1.5-2 × 0.6-0.8 cm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jun.

Dense or open broad-leaved evergreen forests, valleys, hills; below 100-1300 m. Hainan, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia].