Vasilis Teodoridis:
Icacinaceae | Nothapodytes
3. Nothapodytes pittosporoides (Oliver) Sleumer; Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem. 15: 247. 1940.
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Mappia pittosporoides Oliver; Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 18: t. 1762. 1888; Neoleretia pittosporoides (Oliver) Baehni.
Shrubs small; rarely trees; 1.5-5(-10) m tall. Bark gray; branches mostly gray-green; terete; rarely angular; younger branches strigose; glabrescent. Petiole 1-3 cm; adaxially broadly sulcate; commonly strigose at least in grooves; leaf blade abaxially light green; black when dry; adaxially dark green; shiny; oblong or oblanceolate; (7-)10-15(-24) x 2-4.5(-6) cm; thinly leathery; golden strigose; abaxially glabrous at maturity; midvein usually yellow; abaxially prominent; commonly hirsute; lateral veins 6-8 pairs; arcuate ascending; reticulate far from margin; abaxially very conspicuously prominent; often hirsute; base cuneate; apex long acuminate. Cymes terminal; peduncle usually flat; hirsute. Calyx green; campanulate; ca. 2 mm; membranous; outside sparsely strigose; margin ciliate; 5-toothed; teeth deltoid. Petals yellow; loriform; 6.3-7.4 x 1-2 mm; outside strigose; inside long villous; apex reflexed; ca. 1 mm. Filaments 4-5 mm; bases slightly thickened; anthers ovoid; ca. 1 mm. Disk persistent in fruit; fleshy; irregularly lobed or deeply crenulate; inside sparsely hirsute. Ovary subglobose; 1.1-1.4 mm in diam. at anthesis; densely hirsute; style green; 1.5-2 mm; stigma capitate. Drupe green when young; becoming yellow; then red when ripe; ellipsoid to oblong-ovoid; slightly flattened; 1-2 cm x 6-8 mm; usually minutely pubescent when mature; apex distinctly umbonate; endocarp thin; rugose; endosperm foetid; cotyledons ovate; ca. 4.5 x 3.5-4 mm; radicle terete; ca. 2 mm. Fl. Apr-Jun; fr. Jun-Aug.
? Forests; 100-1600(-2500) m. Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Sichuan.