粗叶木蒲桃 cu ye mu pu tao

Shrubs, to 2 m tall. Branchlets dark brown when dry, 4-angled; old branches grayish white. Petiole 5-7 mm; leaf blade oblong, 6-10 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, abaxially reddish brown when dry, adaxially blackish brown and glossy when dry, secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein and 6-10 mm apart, intramarginal veins 2-3 from margin and with an additional small intramarginal vein on outer side, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, apex acute to acuminate. Flowers not seen. Infructescences axillary, cymes, 1-2 cm. Fruit purple when ripe, ellipsoid, ca. 10 × 6-7 mm; persistent calyx lobes 4, semiorbicular, ca. 1.5 mm; persistent style ca. 3 mm. Fr. May-Jun.

● Woodlands on mountain slopes, scrub on hills. Guangdong (Lianjiang).