南烛厚壳桂 nan zhu hou ke gui

Trees, up to 20 m tall. Branchlets striate, glabrous. Buds brown villous. Petiole ca. 1 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate, rarely elliptic, 7-13 × 2.5-5.5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, pinninerved, midrib elevated abaxially, plane adaxially, lateral veins lax, 3-5 pairs, elevated on both surfaces, veins and veinlets reticulate and foveolate on both surfaces especially abaxially, base cuneate or subrounded, apex long acuminate. Flowers unknown. Infructescence terminal or axillary, 4-8 cm, pubescent. Fruit globose, 8-9 mm in diam., glabrous, rugose. Fr. Oct-Dec (or Jan of next year).

● Dense forests. SW Guangxi (Jingxi, Longzhou, Tiandeng).