水社算盘子 shui she suan pan zi

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall, monoecious, glabrous throughout; branchlets slender. Petiole ca. 3 mm; leaf blade ovate or obovate to oblong, 4.5-8.5 × 3-4.5 cm, thinly leathery, base cuneate, obtuse, or rounded, apex acute. Flowers in axillary clusters. Male flowers: pedicels slender; sepals 6, obovate, biseriate, outer ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, apex very obtuse, inner ca. 2.5 × 1 mm; stamens 3, connate. Female flowers: pedicels 1-1.5 mm; sepals 6, oblong, biseriate, outer ca. 2 × 1.5 mm, apex obtuse, entire or obscurely dentate, inner ca. 2 × 0.6 mm, entire or dentate; ovary depressed globose, 4-locular, ca. 0.6 × 1 mm; style column obconical, lobed at apex. Capsules depressed globose, ca. 8 × 15 mm, 8-grooved. Seeds red. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Aug-Sep.

● Scrub on slopes; ca. 300 m. Taiwan (Nantou: Shuishe).