台湾棒花蒲桃 tai wan bang hua pu tao

Eugenia claviflora Roxburgh var. oblongifolia Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 3: 116. 1913; Syzygium claviflorum (Roxburgh) A. M. Cowan & Cowan var. oblongifolium (Hayata) Mori.

Trees, small. Branchlets grayish brown when dry, slender, 4-angled. Petiole 4-5 mm; leaf blade long elliptic, 5-7 × 2-3 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly yellowish brown when dry, adaxially grayish green and not glossy when dry, secondary veins ca. 1.5 mm apart, at an angle of ca. 70° from midvein, abaxially inconspicuous, and adaxially slightly impressed, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, base broadly cuneate, apex slightly acute and with an obtuse cusp. Inflorescences axillary, cymes, flowers (1 or)2 or 3. Hypanthium clavate, ca. 2 cm. Calyx lobes semiorbicular. Fruit long clavoid. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Nov-Dec.

● Broad-leaved evergreen forests; 100-400 m. Taiwan (Lan Yu, Pengjia Yu).