纤枝蒲桃 xian zhi pu tao

Trees, to 16 m tall. Branchlets grayish white when dry, slender, terete. Petiole 4-8 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 4-7 × 1.5-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces olive green when dry and with minute glands, secondary veins 1-2 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 40° from midvein, abaxially slightly raised, and adaxially inconspicuous, intramarginal veins ca. 0.5 mm from margin, base turning narrow and decurrent, apex acuminate and with a slightly obtuse cusp. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymes, several-flowered. Hypanthium clavate, 1-1.2 cm, straight sulcate when dry. Calyx lobes shallowly wavy. Stamens 1-4 mm. Style ca. 4 mm. Fruit purplish red, long clavoid before when young but becoming obovoid. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May.

● Broad-leaved evergreen forests in mountains; ca. 600 m. Hainan.