鳞尾木 lin wei mu

Shrubs ca. 1.5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Petiole 3-7 mm; leaf blade variable in shape, lanceolate to oblong, 8-17 × 1.5-4 cm, papery, base cuneate, apex acuminate; veins 6-12 on each side of midvein. Racemes 1 or 2, 2-2.5 cm; bracts greenish, broadly ovate, 5-7 mm, apex acute. Flowers on tubercle. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Perianth yellowish, 1.5-2 mm, tube ca. 0.5 mm; lobes 4, patent, ovate, apex acute. Stamens 4; filament ca. 0.3 mm; anther ca. 0.5 mm. Disk cupular. Ovary ca. 1 mm. Drupe orange, ellipsoid, 1.5-1.8 × ca. 1 cm, upon thickened disk; stipe 2-3 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Nov. 2n = 20.

Thickets, mountain valleys; 300-1000 m. S to SW Yunnan [Bhutan, E India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam].