隆林耳叶柃 long lin er ye ling

Shrubs to 2 m tall. Young branches grayish brown to brown; current year branchlets pale green, terete, slender, glabrous; terminal buds 8-10 mm, glabrous. Leaves sessile; leaf blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 6-9.5 × 1.5-2.7 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green and shiny, both surfaces glabrous, midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 10-12 on each side of midvein, secondary and reticulate veins abaxially slightly raised and adaxially obscure, base auriculate-amplexicaul, margin closely serrulate, apex acuminate. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers axillary, 2 or 3 in a cluster; pedicel 1.5-2 mm, glabrous; bracteoles ovate, very small; sepals pale green, ovate to suborbicular, 1-1.5 mm, submembranous, glabrous, apex rounded and mucronate; petals oblong, 2-2.5 mm; ovary globose, ca. 1.2 mm in diam., glabrous, 3-loculed; style ca. 1 mm, apically 3-lobed. Fruit not seen. Fl. Oct-Nov.

● Forests on mountain tops; ca. 1500 m. Guangxi (Longlin).