Euonymus laxicymosus C. Y. Cheng ex J. S. Ma

The protologue cites two misidentified specimens, S. Z. Wang 17 (KUN) and S. Z. Wang 357 (KUN, PE), which in fact belong to Euonymus prismatomerioides.

Evergreen shrubs, to 4 m tall; branches terete, sturdy, dark brown to brown, twigs 4-angled. Petiole sturdy, 5-10 mm; leaf blade leathery and rigid, lanceolate, sometimes elliptic-lanceolate, 12-16 × 3-4.5 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire, sometimes finely and remotely crenulate, apex acute or acuminate; lateral veins 8-11 pairs, curving forward, webbing and disappearing before reaching margin. Peduncle 10-15 cm, 1 or 2 × dichotomously branched, several flowered; pedicel 1-1.8 cm. Flowers 5-merous, 8-9 mm in diam.; sepals semiorbicular; petals dark pink to purple or purplish brown, obovate, margin ciliate. Capsule subglobose, 5-angled, red when fresh, brown or yellow-brown when dry, ca. 1.2 × 1.5 cm. Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown, partially covered by orange-red aril. Fl. May-Dec, fr. Jul-Jan.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan [Vietnam].

Forests, woodlands; 1200-1400 m.