雪下红Ardisia villosa

  • Scientific Name: Ardisia villosa Roxb./li>
  • Ref: Fl. Ind. 2: 274. 1824.
  • Synonyms: Ardisia dumetosa Tutcher;
    A. trichocarpa Merrill;
    A. villosa var. ambovestita E. Walker;
    A. villosa var. latifolia E. Walker;
    A. villosa var. oblanceolata E. Walker.
  • Chinese Common Name: 雪下红 xue xia hong
  • Malay Common Name: Kayu Ungu Bisa; Mata Pelandok Gajah; Pokok Segureh; Seluntas Orang Tinggi
  • Family: Primulaceae
  • Genus: Ardisia
  • Distribution: Evergreen broad-leaved forests, mountain slopes, roadsides, rock crevices, damp places; 500-1500 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan [Malaysia]
  • Type: A native of the forests of Pulo-pinang
 Shrubs 1(-3) m tall, stoloniferous, blackish or rusty villous or hirsute almost throughout, glabrescent. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, 5-15 × 1.2-5 cm, papery, densely punctate especially abaxially, base cuneate, decurrent, margin subentire, undulate, crenate, or serrate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins ca. 15 on each side of midrib, raised on both sides, marginal vein interrupted. Inflorescences simple or compound umbellate, rusty villous, on leafy or leafless specialized branches 2-15 (-20) cm. Flowers lavender or pink, rarely white, to 8 mm. Pedicel 5-10 mm. Sepals oblong-lanceolate or ligulate, densely punctate, densely villous outside, pubescent inside, apex obtuse. Petals ovate to broadly lanceolate, glabrous, punctate, apex acute. Stamens nearly as long as petals; anthers lanceolate, acute, punctate dorsally. Ovary glabrescent or puberulent; ovules ca. 5, uniseriate. Fruit dark red or blackish, globose, 6-7 mm in diam., hirsute or villous, punctate. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Feb-Jul.(Flora of China)

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