大华柃 da hua ling

Trees to 8 m tall. Current year branchlets terete, stout, glabrous; terminal buds glabrous or puberulent. Petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous, adaxially grooved; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 8-15 × 3.5-7.5 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially green, both surfaces glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins ca. 25 on each side of midvein, abaxially raised, and adaxially impressed, base cuneate, margin basal 1/2 entire and apical 1/2 serrulate, apex acuminate to shortly caudate. Flowers axillary, 2-4 in a cluster. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Male flowers: bracteoles orbicular; sepals suborbicular, ca. 4 mm, outside and inside pubescent; petals oblong, ca. 9 × 4 mm; stamens 33-35; filaments ca. 5 mm; anthers ca. 3 mm, 4-8-locellate; pistillode glabrous. Female flowers: sepals suborbicular, 3-3.2 mm, pubescent; petals oblong, ca. 7 × 3 mm; ovary globose, glabrous, 3-loculed; style 5-5.5 mm, apically 3-parted. Fruit not seen. Fl. Nov-Dec.

● Forests on mountain slopes; 1700-1800 m. Yunnan (Maguan).