南屏蒲桃 nan ping pu tao

Trees, 5-8 m tall. Branchlets dark brown, somewhat compressed, glabrous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, narrowly oblong, or obovate, 6-13 × 2.3-5(-7) cm, subleathery, abaxially dark green, adaxially light tinged green, adaxially glandular punctate, secondary veins numerous and 2-3 mm apart, intramarginal veins 1-3 mm from margin, base narrowly cuneate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences axillary on leafless branches, panicle of cymes, 6-10 cm, many-flowered. Hypanthium yellow, turbinate, 2-2.5 mm. Calyx lobes inconspicuous. Petals 4, white, distinct, suborbicular, 1-1.5 × 1.5-2 mm, caducous. Stamens numerous, 4-6 mm, equal; anthers ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm. Style 6-7 mm. Fruit purple to blackish purple, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1-1.6 × 0.7-1.1 cm. Fl. May, fr. Jul.

● Forests, mountain slopes, trailsides; ca. 1400 m. Yunnan (Simao).