诃子(原变种) he zi (yuan bian zhong)

Embryogonia arborea Teijsmann & Binnendijk; Myrobalanus chebula (Retzius) Gaertner; M. gangetica (Roxburgh) Kosteletzky; Terminalia acuta Walpers; T. gangetica Roxburgh; T. parviflora Thwaites (1859), not C. Presl (1851); T. reticulata Roth; T. zeylanica Van Heurck & Müller Argoviensis.

Branchlets and both surfaces of leaf blade glabrous, or tawny tomentose only when young.

Sparse forests, thickets, also cultivated on village commons; 800-1800 m. Native in W Yunnan; cultivated in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi (Nanning), and Taiwan (Nantou) [Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia (introduced), Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam].