Vasilis Teodoridis:
Theaceae | Eurya
71. Eurya hebeclados Y. Ling; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 208. 1951.
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Eurya linearis Hu & L. K. Ling.
Shrubs or trees; 1.5-5 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; glabrous or glabrescent; current year branchlets yellowish green to pale brown; terete; densely gray puberulent; terminal buds 3-7 mm; densely gray puberulent. Petiole 2-4 mm; puberulent; leaf blade oblong-elliptic; elliptic; or oblong-obovate; 4-9 x 1.5-3.5 cm; leathery; abaxially yellowish green; adaxially dark green and shiny; both surfaces glabrous; midvein abaxially elevated and adaxially impressed; secondary veins 8-10 on each side of midvein; slender; abaxially slightly raised; and adaxially obscure; base cuneate; margin serrulate; apex acute and with an obtuse tip. Flowers axillary; 4-7 in a cluster. Pedicel ca. 1 mm; puberulent. Male flowers: bracteoles orbicular; very small; sepals suborbicular; 2.5-3 mm; membranous; outside puberulent; margin ciliolate; apex rounded and mucronate; petals oblong-obovate; ca. 3.5 mm; stamens ca. 15; anthers not locellate. Female flowers: bracteoles and sepals similar to those of male flowers but slightly smaller and glabrous; petals obovate to spatulate; ca. 2.5 mm; ovary ovoid; glabrous; 3-loculed; style ca. 1 mm; apically 3-parted. Fruit bluish black when mature; globose; 4-5 mm in diam.; with 10-12 seeds per locule. Seeds dark brown; reniform. Fl. Dec-Jan; fr. Aug-Oct.
? Forests or thickets on mountain slopes; 200-1700 m. S Anhui; Fujian; N Guangdong; Guangxi; SE Guizhou; Henan; W Hubei; Hunan; S Jiangsu; Jiangxi; SE Sichuan; Zhejiang.