南岭柞木(原变种) nan ling zuo mu (yuan bian zhong)

Leaf blades abaxially and branchlets glabrous.

Evergreen broad-leaved forests, forest margins; low elevations. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan [India, Malaysia, Nepal, Vietnam].

"Xylosma controversum var. glabrum" [sic] (S. S. Lai, Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 14: 224. 1994) belongs here but was not validly published under Art. 37.2 of the Vienna Code because two gatherings were indicated as types: Q. H. Lu 324 (IBG) and L. Deng [L. Teng] 1492 (IBSC), the type status of the former being indicated by the text "Typus: in (IBG) et (INSC)" [sic].