菲岛厚壳桂 fei dao hou ke gui

Trees medium-sized. Branchlets brownish black when dry, glabrous. Buds hirsute. Petiole ca. 1 cm, stout, glabrous; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, 9-11 × 4.5-6 cm, leathery, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, reticulate veinlets prominent, base obtuse, apex shortly acuminate. Panicles axillary, 7-8 cm, hirsute. Flowers ca. 1.5 mm. Perianth lobes 6, elliptic-obovate, ca. 1.5 mm, densely hirsute on both surfaces, apex obtuse. Fertile stamens 9; filaments villous; anthers 2-celled. Ovary glabrous. Fruit black when dry, globose, ca. 2 cm in diam., longitudinally ridged. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Dec.

Coastal forests; below 100 m. Taiwan (Lan Yu) [Philippines].