腺柃 xian ling

Shrubs 2-3 m tall. Young branches grayish brown, glabrous or glabrescent; current year branchlets terete, densely yellowish brown spreading villous; terminal buds densely yellowish brown pubescent. Petiole 1-6 mm or leaves subsessile, pubescent; leaf blade oblong, oblong-elliptic, or elliptic, 4-6(-10) × 1.5-2.5(-3.5) cm, leathery to subleathery, abaxially yellowish green, black glandular punctate, and villous along midvein, adaxially dark green and glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, abaxially slightly raised, and adaxially slightly impressed, base rounded to cordate and ± amplexicaul or sometimes cuneate, margin closely serrulate, apex acute to obtuse and sometimes with a retuse tip. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers axillary, solitary or to 4 in a cluster; pedicel very short; bracteoles very small; sepals ovate, 1-1.5 mm, subleathery, outside brown pubescent, margin glandular, apex obtuse; petals narrowly oblong, ca. 3 mm; ovary ovoid to globose, glabrous, 3-loculed; style 1-1.5 mm, apically 3-lobed. Fruit globose, 3-4 mm in diam. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Apr-Jun.

● Forests or thickets on mountain slopes or in valleys; 200-1300 m. Fujian, Guangdong.