福建胡颓子 fu jian hu tui zi

Elaeagnus oldhamii var. nakaii Hayata.

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen. Young branches and buds densely silvery scaly. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade obovate, 3-6 × 1.3-2.5 cm, papery, scales mostly silvery, lateral veins 4-6 per side of midrib, base cuneate, apex obtuse, rounded, or emarginate. Inflorescences umbellate-racemose, 1-3-flowered, in axils of long shoots and of bracteoles on short shoots. Pedicel 3-4 mm. Flowers white. Calyx tube cup-shaped, ca. 2 mm; lobes 2.5-3.5 mm. Filaments ca. 0.7 mm; anthers narrowly elliptic, 2.5-2.7 mm. Style 0.7-0.9 mm, with stellate hairs. Drupe red, globose or nearly so, 7-9 mm. Seed 7-8 mm. Fl. Nov-Dec, fr. Feb-Mar.

● Open areas; below 500 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan.