轮叶蒲桃 lun ye pu tao

Eugenia grijsii Hance, J. Bot. 9: 5. 1871; E. pyxophylla Hance.

Shrubs, less than 1.5 m tall. Branchlets blackish brown when dry, slender, 4-angled. Leaves usually ternate; petiole 1-2 mm; leaf blade narrowly oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-2 × (0.2-)0.5-0.7 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly pale when dry, adaxially dark brown and not glossy when dry, abaxially with numerous glands, secondary veins dense, 1-1.5 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 50° with midvein, and abaxially more conspicuous, intramarginal veins very close to margin, base cuneate, apex obtuse to slightly acute. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymes, 1-1.5 cm, few-flowered. Flowers white. Hypanthium ca. 2 mm. Calyx lobes very short. Petals 4, distinct, suborbicular, ca. 2 mm. Stamens ca. 5 mm. Style as long as stamens. Fruit reddish black, globose, 4-5 mm in diam. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Nov-Dec.

● Thickets, open woodlands, streamsides, slopes, valleys; 100-900 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang.