厚叶山矾 hou ye shan fan

Dicalix crassilimbus (Merrill) Migo.

Trees 5--30 m tall. Young branchlets grayish white, glabrous. Petiole 1.5--3 cm; leaf blade olive green when dry, elliptic to obovate, 6--14.5 X 3--7 cm, thickly leathery, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire or sparsely denticulate, apex slightly acuminate, lateral veins 7--11 pairs. Racemes 4--5 cm, axis glabrous; bracts and bractlets early deciduous, glabrous; bracts suborbicular, 5--9 mm, margin ciliate. Pedicel 0.5--1 mm, glabrous. Ovary 1.5--2 mm, glabrous. Calyx ca. 1.8 mm, glabrous; lobes triangular ovate, ca. 1.5 mm. Corolla 6--7 mm. Stamens 80--100. Disc glabrous. Drupes yellowish white, ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5--2 X 0.6--0.8 cm, apex with persistent erect calyx lobes. Fl. Oct-Dec, fr. Jun-Jul.

* Mixed forests; 400--1000 m. Hainan.