勐海黄肉楠 meng hai huang rou nan

Trees, up to 8 m tall. Branchlets terete, 0.8-1.2 cm thick, glabrous. Terminal buds brownish, subglobose, glabrous. Leaves 5- or 6-verticillate at apex of branchlet; petiole 2-4(-6) cm, glabrous; leaf blade pale green abaxially, shiny adaxially, obovate or elliptic, 15-30(-40) × 6-12(-15) cm, thinly coriaceous, both surfaces glabrous, triplinerved, midrib prominently raised on both surfaces, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs, basal lateral veins arising 0.2-1.2(-1.5) cm from base, transverse veins slightly raised abaxially, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Flowers unknown. Infructescences racemiform, to 4 cm, yellow-brown pubescent. Fruit becoming purple-red when mature, ellipsoid, to 2.5 × 1.5 cm; cupule flat, to 1 cm in diam.; fruiting pedicel slender, to 1 cm × ca. 2 mm. Fr. Sep.

● Dense humid valley forests; ca. 1500 m. S Yunnan (Menghai).