Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Photinia
21. Photinia prunifolia (Hooker & Arnott) Lindley; Bot. Reg.; n.s. 10: sub t. 1956. 1837.
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Trees evergreen; 10–20 m tall. Branchlets dark purplish brown to grayish black; glabrous; with yellowish brown suborbicular lenticels; buds ovoid; 2.5–4 mm; apex shortly acuminate or acute; scales several; dark brown; puberulous when young; glabrous when old. Petiole 1–2.5(–3) cm; glabrous; with many glands; sometimes with teeth; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate; 7–13 x 3–5 cm; leathery; veins 13–15 pairs; both surfaces glabrous; rarely slightly pilose when young; soon glabrescent; abaxially with black glands; adaxially lustrous; base rounded to cuneate; margin densely minutely sharply serrate or doubly serrate; apex acuminate or acute. Compound corymbs terminal; 8–11 x 12–16 cm; compact; many flowered; rachis and pedicels slightly villous; bracts caducous; lanceolate or linear; 2–4 mm; somewhat villous; later glabrous. Pedicel 4–8 mm. Flowers 7–8 mm in diam. Hypanthium cupular; 2–2.5 mm; abaxially glabrous or initially villous; glabrescent. Sepals triangular; 1–2 mm; apex acuminate or acute. Petals white; obovate; 3–4.5 mm; base tomentose; apex obtuse. Stamens 20; slightly shorter than or nearly as long as petals. Ovary pubescent apically; styles 2(or 3); connate basally; somewhat not exceeding stamens. Fruit red; ellipsoid; 7–11 x 4–7 mm; glabrous; with 2(or 3) seeds. Fl. Mar–Apr; fr. Oct–Nov.
Hills; slopes; stream sides; forests; bamboo forests by roadsides; 200--1700 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hunan; Jiangxi; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Vietnam].