兴文胡颓子 xing wen hu tui zi

Shrubs, evergreen, ca. 3 m tall. Spines not seen. Petiole brown, ca. 1.8 cm; leaf blade adaxially drying pale gray-brown, narrowly elliptic, ca. 9.5 × 3 cm, leathery, abaxially with overlapping scales, scales pale brown with paler margins, irregularly lobed, margin toothed, adaxially with scales irregularly lobed, soon lost, lateral veins 5 or 6 per side of midrib, obscure, base cuneate, margin revolute, apex acuminate. Inflorescence in axils of mature leaves. Flowers not seen. Fruiting pedicel to 2 cm. Drupe ellipsoid-fusiform, ca. 1.4 × 0.7 cm.

● About 1200 m. SE Sichuan (Xingwen).

Elaeagnus xingwenensis is known to us only from the protologue.