扁果木姜子 bian guo mu jiang zi

Evergreen trees, ca. 15 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, stout. Leaves alternate, congregated toward apex of branchlet; petiole 1.7-3.2 cm; leaf blade yellow-brown abaxially, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 14-26 × 4.5-8 cm, foveolate adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 6-10 pairs, slightly conspicuously reticulate-veined adaxially, base broadly cuneate, apex acute or rounded, apiculate. Flowers not seen. Fruit purple, white-spotted, compressed globose, ca. 2 × 3 cm, seated on cup-shaped entire perianth tube; fruiting pedicel ca. 1 cm.

● Semi-evergreen rain forests; ca. 900 m. SE Xizang.