玫花珠子木 mei hua zhu zi mu

Phyllanthodendron album Craib & Hutchinson; P. roseum var. glabrum Craib ex Hosseus; Phyllanthus roseus (Craib & Hutchinson) Beille.

Shrubs or treelets 3-6 m tall, monoecious; branches terete, puberulent when young. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, ca. 4 mm; petiole 5-8 mm; leaf blade oblanceolate, oblong, or elliptic, 7-16 × 2-5 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous, brown-red when dried, base cuneate or rounded, apex acuminate; midrib and lateral veins flattened adaxially, elevated abaxially, lateral veins in 9-12 pairs, anastomosing before margin. Inflorescences 3-6-flowered. Male flowers: pedicel ca. 10 mm; sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, margins membranous, midrib elevated abaxially; disk segments 5, linear, ca. 1.5 × 0.25 cm, flattened; stamens 3; filament column ca. 0.5 mm; anthers ca. 0.75 mm, connectives acuminate, ca. 1 mm. Female flowers: pedicel ca. 4 cm, slender; sepals 6, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 3.5 × 2 mm; disk segments 6, linear, ca. 1.7 mm; ovary subglobose, 3-locular; styles 3, ca. 0.5 mm. Capsules subglobose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., reddish, exocarp membranous, endocarps horny. Seed ca. 8 × 3-3.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Sep-Nov.

Montane evergreen broad-leaved woodlands; ca. 1600 m. Yunnan (Menghai) [Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam].