| Status in China | Vulnerable (VU) |
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Description:
Evergreen shrubs, 1-3 m high; branchlets glabrous or nealy so. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade oblong lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 6-12 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate, glabrous, 3-nerved. Plant monoecious; flowers unisexual, in axillary racemes. Staminate flowers: bracteoles 2, ovate, ca. 2 mm long; sepals 4, broadly ovate or elliptic, ca. 3 mm long; stamens 4, ca. 6 mm. Pistillate flowers: bracteoles many, ovate, ca. 1.5-3 mm; sepals 4-6, subovate. Capsules subglobose, ca. 8 mm in diam., red or red purple.
Distribution:
Restricted to Mount Parker. Also in N Guangdong and S Hunan.
Habitat and Ecology:
In ravines. Flowering: Autumn.
It is a rare species, previously known only from S Hunan and N Guangdong. It is recently recorded in Hong Kong and is thus of botanical interest. In Hong Kong, the species occurs in Country Parks under protection.
References:
鄭勉，1980：中國植物誌44(1)：44。 圖版13。 科學出版社，北京。
羅獻瑞，1995：廣東植物誌3：235。廣東科技出版社，廣州。
