Vasilis Teodoridis:
Theaceae | Eurya
42. Eurya hainanensis (Kobuski) Hung T. Chang; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 3: 37. 1954.
??? hai nan ling
Eurya macartneyi Champion var. hainanensis Kobuski; Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25: 307. 1938.
Shrubs or trees; 3-10 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets yellowish green; terete; glabrous; terminal buds sparsely pubescent when young; soon glabrescent. Petiole 5-8 mm; glabrous; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-elliptic; 6-10 x 2-4.5 cm; leathery; abaxially grayish brown; adaxially shiny and yellowish green when dry; both surfaces glabrous; midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed; secondary veins 9-11 on each side of midvein; abaxially slightly raised; and adaxially visible; base cuneate to broadly cuneate; margin closely serrulate; apex acuminate to abruptly shortly caudate. Flowers axillary; solitary or to 3 in a cluster. Pedicel 3-4 mm; glabrous. Male flowers: bracteoles orbicular to suborbicular; apex rounded and mucronate; sepals suborbicular; 2-2.5 mm; glabrous; apex rounded to retuse and mucronate; outer 2 or 3 sepal margins sparsely glandular; petals oblong; ca. 3.5 mm; stamens ca. 20; anthers not locellate; pistillode glabrous. Female flowers: bracteoles and sepals similar to those of male flowers but slightly smaller; petals lanceolate; ca. 2.5 mm; ovary globose; glabrous; 3-loculed; style ca. 3(-4) mm; apically 3-lobed. Fruit black when mature; globose; 4-5 mm in diam. Seeds dark brown; rounded reniform; shiny. Fl. Nov-Dec; fr. Jul-Aug.
? Forests on mountain slopes or in valleys; 500-800 m. Hainan.