征镒卫矛 zheng yi wei mao

Deciduous shrubs, 2-3 m tall; branches terete, slender, dark brown to brown, twigs slender, striate. Petiole short, 3-4 mm; leaf blade leathery, elliptic, 5-6 × 1.5-4 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire, apex acute or caudate; lateral veins invisible. Peduncle very short, ca. 5 mm, 1 or 2 × dichotomously branched, few flowered; pedicel ca. 1.5 cm. Flowers 4-merous (not seen); sepals triangular, persistent. Capsule obrhombic-obovoid, 4-angled with little grooves, red when fresh, brown or yellow-brown when dry, 2-2.8 × ca. 1 cm. Seeds 2 or 3 each locule, ovoid to globose, dark brown, arillate. Fl. unknown, fr. Aug.

● Mixed forests; 1900-2400 m. SW Guangxi, S Yunnan.