红木水锦树 hong mu shui jin shu

Trees, ca. 7 m tall; wood firm, red; branches quadrate, brownish gray, moderately to densely mixed pubescent, hirsute and pilosulous, sometimes becoming glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.5-1 cm, moderately to densely strigillose to hirtellous; blade drying leathery or papery, elliptic-ovate, obovate, or ovate, 5-12 × 3-5.5 cm, adaxially sparsely strigillose or hirtellous to glabrescent, abaxially sparsely to moderately hirtellous with pubescence denser along principal veins, base obtuse to acute, margins scaberulous to denticulate, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 6 or 7 pairs; stipules generally persistent, suborbicular to pandurate, 5-8 × 4-5.5 mm, sparsely to densely strigillose or strigose basally and glabrescent above, apex usually spreading to reflexed, obtuse to rounded. Inflorescence rather laxly paniculate, 5-13 × 3-12.5 cm, sparsely to densely hirtellous to hirsute, tripartite and sessile or pedunculate; peduncle 1-6 cm; bracts ligulate to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 1.2-5 mm, often glabrescent. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx glabrous or sparsely pilose; hypanthium portion subglobose to ellipsoid, ca. 0.8 mm; limb lobed nearly to base; lobes ovate-oblong to ligulate, ca. 1.2 mm, ciliate. Corolla tubular to salverform, glabrous outside; tube 2.5-3 mm, in throat white hirsute; lobes ovate, 1-1.2 mm. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.8 mm, subsessile, partially exserted. Stigma ca. 0.5 mm, 2-lobed. Capsules unknown. Fl. Apr-Oct.

● Forests on hills of low elevations. Taiwan.

The leaf margins of the specimens seen are denticulate, with the teeth apparently scabrosities rather than dentate mesophyll tissue.