Elaeocarpus austrosinicus Hung T. Chang.

Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets slender, minutely puberulent. Petiole 1-3 cm, slender, glabrous, swollen at end; leaf blade abaxially yellowish brown and adaxially greenish brown when dry, lanceolate, 12-15 × 3.5-4 cm, papery, glabrous, midvein prominently raised abaxially, slightly raised adaxially, lateral veins 9-11 per side, prominently raised abaxially, conspicuous adaxially, veinlets inconspicuous abaxially, conspicuous adaxially, not glandular, base cuneate, margin crenate, apex acuminate. Raceme 4-5 cm; peduncle ca. 7 mm, pilose. Flower buds ovoid, ca. 5 mm. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, abaxially pubescent, adaxially nearly glabrous, margin pubescent. Petals 5, laciniate; segments 6, abaxially densely sericeous, adaxially and marginally pilose. Stamens numerous; filaments glabrous; anthers awned. Disk 5-lobed, glabrous. Ovary densely tomentose, 2-loculed; style pubescent in lower 1/2. Drupe ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 2-3 mm; exocarp shiny. Fl. Dec-Feb, fr. May-Jun.

Forests; 300-500 m. S and SW Guangxi, SE Yunnan [Vietnam].