Description
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Shrubs to trees, to 5 m tall. Branchlets grayish white when dry, slightly compressed. Leaves very shortly petiolate to nearly sessile; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-oblong, 4-12 × 2.5-5.5 cm, leathery, abaxially slightly pale when dry, adaxially dark brown and glossy when dry, secondary veins numerous and at an angle of ca. 70° from midvein, intramarginal veins 1-2 mm from margin, base rounded to slightly cordate, apex acuminate and with an obtuse acumen. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate cymes, 2-4 cm, many-flowered, branched; peduncle less than 1 cm. Hypanthium obconic, ca. 4 mm. Calyx lobes wavy. Petals white, coherent. Filaments distinct, 4-6 mm. Style as long as stamens. Fruit red to black, ellipsoid, ca. 10 × 8 mm. Fl. Mar-Aug(-Oct).
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Distribution
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W Guangdong, W Guangxi, Hainan [Laos, Vietnam].
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Habitat
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Secondary forests on flat areas, scrub at seaside; below 100-300(-400) m.
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Synonym
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Eugenia bullockii Hance, J. Bot. 16. 227. 1878.
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