Vasilis Teodoridis:
Sabiaceae | Meliosma
12. Meliosma squamulata Hance; J. Bot. 1: 364. 1876.
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Meliosma lepidota Blume subsp. squamulata (Hance) Beusekom; M. lutchuensis Koidzumi.
Trees small; to 15 m tall; evergreen. Young branches and buds brownish pubescent; glabrous when old. Leaves simple; petiole 2.5-6.5 cm; rarely to 10 cm; slender; leaf blade abaxially pale; adaxially nitid; elliptic or ovate; 5-12 x 1.5-5 cm; thinly leathery; abaxially densely brown squamellate; adaxially glabrous; lateral veins 3-5 pairs; ascending; anastomosing; base cuneate; margin entire; apex caudate-acuminate or with an obtuse tip. Panicle terminal or axillary; solitary or 2-8-clustered; 7-20 cm; axes; branches; pedicels; and bracts densely brownish pubescent. Pedicel to 3 mm; sometimes flowers sessile. Flowers ca. 3 mm in diam. Sepals 5; ovate; ciliate. Petals white: 3 outer ones suborbicular; ca. 2.5 mm in diam.; 2 inner ones equal to filaments; 2-parted at an obtuse angle; lobes narrow and acute. Pistil ca. 2 mm; style equal to ovary; ovary glabrous. Drupe globose; 4-6 mm in diam.; endocarp globose; slightly oblique; convex; with conspicuous; scattered netlike strips; midrib projecting. Fl. summer; fr. Sep-Oct.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; below 1800 m. S Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; S Hunan; S Jiangxi; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Japan].