Pleurostylia opposita (Wallich) Alston

Trees, to 15 m tall, sometimes shrubs; branchlets subterete or obscurely 4-angled. Petiole short, 2-5 mm; leaf blade ovate to obovate-oblong, rarely suborbicular, 3-8 × 1.5-5.2 cm, papery, base cuneate, margin entire, sometimes slightly recurved, apex obtuse, acute, rarely acuminate, very rarely retuse; veins 5 or 6 pairs, thin and obvious. Cymes of 1 or 2 branches, few flowered; peduncle very short, 2-3 mm; pedicel 1-2 mm. Flowers green; calyx lobes rounded or subreniform, ca. 0.5 × 0.75-1 mm; petals elliptic or broadly ovate, 1.25-1.5 × ca. 1 mm, reflexed at anthesis, obtuse or slightly acute. Disk margin slightly crenate. Stamens attached just abaxially on disk margin; filament subulate, fleshy, slightly flattened; anther slightly ovoid. Ovary adnate to disk at base; style very short; stigma capitate. Nut ellipsoid or sometimes slightly obovoid, 5-7 × 4-5 mm. Seed sustained by persistent floral parts. Fl. May-Dec, fr. Jul-Jan.

Hainan [S India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia (Queensland), Pacific islands (New Caledonia)].

Lower primary and secondary light rain forests; near sea level to 700 m.

Celastrus oppositus Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 2: 393. 1824.

Pleurostylia opposita is a species of shrub in the family Celastraceae. It is distributed throughout the India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and China.

Pleurostylia opposita là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Dây gối. Loài này được (Wall.) Alston miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1931.

盾柱（学名：Pleurostylia opposita）是卫矛科盾柱属的植物。分布在越南、印度以及中国大陆的海南等地，一般生于山地密林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。