密脉蒲桃 mi mai pu tao

Trees, to 22 m tall. Branchlets gray when dry, slender, rounded; old branches grayish brown. Petiole 7-12 mm; leaf blade elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 4-10 × 1.5-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially yellowish brown when dry, adaxially olive green or turning grayish brown when dry, both surfaces with small glands, secondary veins numerous, less than 1 mm apart, and gradually extending into margin, intramarginal veins very close to margin, base broadly cuneate to slightly obtuse, apex broadly and abruptly acuminate and with a 1-1.5 cm acumen. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, paniculate cymes, 1.5-3 cm, few-branched, 3-9-flowered. Flower buds ca. 2.5 mm. Hypanthium ca. 2 mm, apex plano-truncate. Calyx lobes inconspicuous. Petals coherent. Stamens and style very short. Fruit greenish white, red, or black, globose, 6-7 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Dec.

● Broad-leaved evergreen forests, hills; 300-900(-1100) m. Guangxi, Hainan.