滇边蒲桃 dian bian pu tao

Trees, 8-15 m tall. Branchlets blackish brown when dry, ca. 2 mm thick, compressed or slightly angled. Petiole 1.2-1.8 cm; leaf blade elliptic, 6-11 × 2.5-4 cm, leathery, adaxially glands sparse, secondary veins numerous, 1.5-5 mm apart, and abaxially slightly raised, intramarginal veins 0.5-1 mm from margin, base cuneate, apex acuminate and with a ca. 1.5 cm obtuse cusp. Inflorescences axillary or in leaf axils apically on branches, paniculate cymes, 3-8 cm, numerous-flowered; secondary peduncles 0.5-3 cm. Flower buds subsessile, ca. 5 × 3.5 mm, basally abruptly contracted into a short thick stipe, apex globose. Calyx lobes inconspicuous. Petals distinct or coherent. Stamens ca. 6 mm; anthers elliptic, ca. 0.6 mm, apically with glandular protuberances. Fruit ellipsoid-ovoid, ca. 8 × 6 mm. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Dec-Jan.

● Broad-leaved evergreen forests, mountain slopes, valleys; 2100-2400 m. Yunnan.