黑长叶蒲桃 hei chang ye pu tao

Trees, to 16 m tall. Branchlets blackish brown when dry, terete. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade narrow oblong to lanceolate, 14-20 × 4-5.5 cm, leathery, abaxially blackish brown when dry, adaxially black and glossy when dry, both surfaces coarse or sometimes smooth, adaxially usually tubercular, secondary veins 23-32 on each side of midvein, 5-8 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 55° from midvein, and conspicuously raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins conspicuous, intramarginal veins 1.5-2 mm from margin, base cuneate, apex acuminate and with a slightly obtuse cusp. Flowers not seen. Infructescences terminal, cymose, ca. 7 cm; peduncle 1-1.5 cm. Fruit globose, ca. 2 cm in diam. (immature), glaucous; pericarp thick, fleshy. Fr. Apr-May.

● Secondary forests, mountain slopes; ca. 1400 m. Yunnan (Mengla).