Neolitsea wushanica pubens

Description

Small trees,4-10 m tall.Branchlets glabrous or pubescent.Leaves alternate or clustered toward apex of branchlet;petiole 8-15 mm,glabrous or pubescent;leaf blade elliptic or oblong-lanceolate,5-9 × 1.7-3.5 cm,glabrous on both surfaces,glaucous abaxially,pinninerved or sometimes subtriplinerved,lateral veins 8-12 pairs,base somewhat acuminate,apex acute or subacuminate.Umbels axillary or lateral,sessile,5-flowered.Pedicel sericeous-pubescent.Perianth segments 4.Male flowers: fertile stamens 6;filaments glabrous,of 3rd whorls each with 2 small glands at base;rudimentary pistil small,glabrous.Fruit globose or ellipsoid,5-7 mm in diam.,seated on shallowly discoid perianth tube,purple-black at maturity;fruiting pedicel slightly thickened at apex