广西蒲桃 guang xi pu tao

Shrubs, to 1 m tall. Branchlets grayish brown when dry, flattened and angled; old branches gray. Petiole 4-6 mm; leaf blade long elliptic, 8-12 × 3-5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially brownish when dry, adaxially grayish brown and not glossy when dry, secondary veins ca. 1.5 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 80° from midvein, and slightly raised on both surfaces, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, apex acute and with a cusp less than 1 cm. Flowers not seen. Infructescences axillary, cymes. Fruit globose, 2.5-3 cm in diam., apical persistent calyx limb ca. 1 × 3.5 mm. Fr. Nov.

● Thickets, limestone hillsides; ca. 500 m. S Guangxi.