Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Rhaphiolepis
7. Rhaphiolepis ferruginea F. P. Metcalf; Lingnan Sci. J. 18: 509. 1939.
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Trees or shrubs; more than 10 m tall. Branchlets blackish brown when young; grayish black when old; terete; densely rusty tomentose. Stipules caducous; lanceolate; ca. 5 mm; both surfaces tomentose; apex acuminate; petiole 1–2.5 cm; densely rusty tomentose; leaf blade elliptic or broadly lanceolate; 6–15 x 2.5–5.5 cm; leathery; midvein impressed adaxially; veins slightly prominent abaxially; abaxially densely rusty tomentose or pubescent; adaxially tomentose when young; glabrescent; base cuneate; margin entire or serrate; revolute or not; apex acute or shortly acuminate. Panicles terminal; many flowered; peduncle and pedicels densely rusty pubescent; bracts lanceolate; ca. 6 mm; rusty tomentose; margin entire; apex acuminate. Pedicel 2–4 mm. Flowers 8–10 mm. Hypanthium campanulate; abaxially densely rusty tomentose. Sepals ovate; slightly longer than hypanthium; ca. 3 mm; abaxially densely rusty pubescent; margin entire; apex acute. Petals white; ovate-oblong; ca. 4 mm; glabrous; apex obtuse. Stamens unequal; ca. as long as or shorter than petals. Ovary 2-loculed; with 2 ovules per locule; styles 2; connate at base; glabrous. Pome black; globose; 5–8 mm in diam.; yellow tomentose when young; later subglabrous or sparsely rusty tomentose apically; fruiting pedicel short; 4–7 mm; densely rusty tomentose; sepals deciduous; leaving an annular ring. Fl. Apr–Jun; fr. Oct.
Slopes; valleys; open forests at roadsides and on slopes; stream sides; 300--600 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan