广东莲桂 guang dong lian gui

Trees, up to 6 m tall, to 15-20 cm d.b.h., glabrous on all parts. Branchlets gray-brown, slender, upright, smooth. Leaves alternate, clustered at apex of branchlet; petiole slender, 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade glaucous and opaque abaxially, green and shiny adaxially, elliptic, 5-10 × 2.5-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, midrib and lateral veins elevated on both surfaces, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, oblique-patent, base acute, apex acuminate. Panicle axillary, slender, 2.5-6 cm, unbranched or shortly branched. Pedicels slender, 3-5 mm, dilated into a perianth tube ca. 0.75 mm on top. Ovary glabrous. Fruit unknown. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Oct.

● Valleys. Guangdong.