- Scientific Name: Ehretia microphylla Lam.
- Ref: Tabl. Encycl. 1:425. 1792
- Synonyms: Carmona heterophylla Cav.; C. microphylla (Lam.) G.Don; C. retusa (Vahl) Masam.; Cordia coromandeliana Retz. ex A.DC.; C. retusa Vahl; Ehretia buxifolia Roxb.; E. coromandeliana Retz. ex A.DC.; E. dentata Courchet ex Gagnep.; E. heterophylla Spreng.; E. monopyrena Gottschling & Hilger; Lithothamnus buxioides Zipp. ex Span.
- English Common Name: Fukien tea tree, Philippine tea tree
- Chinese Common Name: 基及树 jījí∙shù, 福建茶 Fújiàn chá
- Japanese Common Name: フクマンギ [福満木] fukumangi
- Family: Boraginaceae
- Genus: Ehretia
- Distribution: Thickets. S Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan [Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands); Australia]
- Photo: 06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong
Shrubs 1-3 m tall, much branched; bark brown; branches slender, internodes 1-2 cm, sparsely hirtellous when young; buds light brown, globose, tomentose. Petiole short; leaf blade obovate to spatulate, 1.5-3.5 × 1-2 cm, leathery, abaxially subglabrous, adaxially hirtellous or spotted, base attenuate, margin coarsely crenate, apex rounded to acute. Glomerules spreading, 0.5-1.5 cm wide; peduncle slender, 1-1.5 cm, pubescent. Pedicel 1-1.5 mm, or ± obsolete. Calyx 4-6 mm, parted nearly to base; lobes linear or linear-oblanceolate, 0.5-0.8 mm, attenuate below middle, spreading hirtellous, densely appressed pubescent inside. Corolla white or slightly reddish, campanulate, 4-6 mm; lobes spreading, oblong, longer than tube. Filaments 3-4 mm, inserted near base of corolla; anthers oblong 1.5-1.8 mm, exserted. Style 4-6 mm, glabrous. Drupes 3-4 mm in diam.; endocarp globose, reticulate-wrinkled, 2-3 mm in diam., apex short beaked. 2n = 32. (Flora of China)
