散点蒲桃 san dian pu tao

Cleistocalyx conspersipunctatus Merrill & L. M. Perry, J. Arnold Arbor. 18: 335. 1937.

Trees, to 30 m tall. Bark brownish gray. Branchlets blackish brown when dry, flat, furrowed. Petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade ovate to obovate, 5-8.5 × 3-5.5 cm, both surfaces dark brown when dry and with dispersed black glandular dots, secondary veins numerous, 2-5 mm apart, and at an angle of 65°-70° from midvein, intramarginal veins 3-4 mm from margin and with another smaller intramarginal vein outside of it, base broadly cuneate, apex mucronate to sometimes obtuse or rounded. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, panicle of cymes, 5-7 cm. Flower bud obovoid, ca. 6 mm, apex rounded. Flowers usually clusters of 3, sessile. Hypanthium obconic, ca. 4 × 5 mm, not stipitate. Calyptra hemispheric, 2.5-3 mm. Petals obsolete. Stamens 3-5 mm. Style 7-9 mm. Fruit globose, 1.5-2 cm in diam. Fl. Jul-Aug.

● Forests, valleys; middle elevations. Hainan.