倒披针叶蒲桃 dao pi zhen ye pu tao

Shrubs, to 0.6 m tall, branched. Branchlets grayish brown when dry, ridged. Petiole ca. 1 mm; leaf blade oblanceolate, 2.2-3 × 0.7-1 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly pale when dry, adaxially grayish brown and not glossy when dry, adaxially with numerous impressed glands, secondary veins 1-1.5 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 45° from midvein, abaxially inconspicuous, and adaxially impressed, intramarginal veins very close to margin, base becoming narrow and cuneate, apex rounded to obtuse. Flowers not seen. Infructescences terminal, cymes, ca. 1 cm, several-fruited. Fruit globose, ca. 4 mm in diam.; persistent calyx 1-1.5 mm; calyx lobes shortly triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Fr. Sep.

● Riversides, sandy areas; 700-800 m. Yunnan (Mengla).