《中国植物志》|| 桃金娘科 MYRTACEAE ||高檐蒲桃系 Ser. Oblata Chang ||赤楠 Syzygium buxifolium Hook. & Arn.

35．赤楠（广州植物志）牛金子（植物名实图考）图版18：4-5
Syzygium buxifolium Book. et Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 187. 1833; walp. Repert. 2: 180. 1843; Benth. in Journ. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 118. 1852 et Fl. Hongk. 118. 1861; Merr. et Perry in Journ. Arn. Arb. 19: 104, 234. 1938; 广州植物志205. 1956; H. L. Li Woody Fl. Taiwan 647. 1963; 海南植物志2: 19. 1965; 中国高等植物图鉴2: 995. 图3719. 1972——Eugenia microphylla Abel Narr. Journ. China 181. 364. 1818; Groff in Lingnan Univ. Sci. Bull. 2: 76. 1930; Hand.-Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7: 596. 1933; Merr. in Journ. Arn. Arb. 18: 71. 1937; non Syz. microphyllum (Bedd.) Gamble (1919)——Syllisium buxifolium Meyen et Schauer in Nov. Act. Acad. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19: Suppl. 1: 334. 1843.——E. sinensis Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23: 298. 1887; Dunn et Tutcher in KeW Bull. Add. Ser. 10: 105. 1912; Levl. Fl. Kouy-Tcheou 289. 1914——Syz. microphyllum auct. non Gamble: Masamune in Mem. Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Univ. 11: 323. 1934.
灌木或小乔木；嫩枝有棱，干后黑褐色。叶片革质，阔椭圆形至椭圆形，有时阔倒卵形，长1.5-3厘米，宽1-2厘米，先端圆或钝，有时有钝尖头，基部阔楔形或钝，上面干后暗褐色，无光泽，下面稍浅色，有腺点，侧脉多而密，脉间相隔1-1.5毫米，斜行向上，离边缘1-1.5毫米处结合成边脉，在上面不明显，在下面稍突起；叶柄长2毫米。聚伞花序顶生，长约1厘米，有花数朵；花梗长1-2毫米；花蕾长3毫米；萼管倒圆锥形，长约2毫米，萼齿浅波状；花瓣4，分离，长2毫米；雄蕊长2.5毫米；花柱与雄蕊同等。果实球形，直径5-7毫米。花期6-8月。
产安徽、浙江、台湾、福建、江西、湖南、广东、广西、贵州等省区。生于低山疏林或灌丛。分布于越南及日本琉球群岛。

《Flora of China》|| Myrtaceae || Syzygium ||赤楠 Syzygium buxifolium

37. Syzygium buxifolium Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey Voy. 187. 1833.

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Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets blackish brown when dry, 4- or 6-angled. Leaves opposite or ternate; petiole ca. 2 mm; leaf blade broadly elliptic, elliptic, orbicular, obovate, or broadly obovate, 1-3 × 0.5-2(-2.2) cm, leathery, abaxially slightly pale when dry, adaxially dark brown and not glossy when dry, abaxially glandular, secondary veins numerous, 1-1.5 mm apart, abaxially slightly raised, and adaxially inconspicuous or depressed, intramarginal veins 1-1.5 mm from margin and depressed or not, base broadly cuneate, cuneate, or obtuse, apex rounded, obtuse, or acute and sometimes with an obtuse cusp. Inflorescences terminal, cymes, ca. 1 cm, several-flowered. Flower buds ca. 3 mm. Hypanthium obconic, ca. 2 mm. Calyx lobes shallow wavy. Petals 4, white, distinct, ca. 2 mm. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm. Style as long as stamens. Fruit red turning purplish black, globose, 5-7 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Oct-Dec.

Sparse forests or scrub in mountains, hills; 200-1200 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Zhejiang [S Japan, Vietnam].