Buxus harlandii Hance

Shrubs small, 0.5-1 m tall; branchlets subtetragonous; young branches subtetragonous, slender, ca. 1 mm in diam., sparsely pubescent; internode 1-2 cm. Petiole not obvious; leaf blade spatulate, rarely narrowly oblong, 20-35(-40) × 5-8(-9) mm, thinly leathery, adaxially shiny, puberulent along basal part of midrib, base cuneate, apex acute, rounded to obtuse, or with retuse tip; midrib elevated on both surfaces, lateral veins and veinlets dense and visible adaxially, obscure abaxially. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, capitate, dense; rachis 3-4 mm; bracts ovate, mucronate. Male flowers 8-10; pedicels ca. 1 mm; tepals broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, ca. 2 mm. Female flowers: tepals broadly ovate, ca. 2 mm, margins scarious; ovary glabrous; style longer than ovary, erect, compressed and broad at lower part; stigma obcordate, decurrent to ca. 1/4 length of style. Capsule subglobose, ca. 7 mm, smooth; persistent style ca. 3 mm, apex slightly recurved. Fl. May, fr. Oct.

● Forests, streamsides. Offshore islands of Guangdong, Hainan.

Buxus harlandii, the Harland boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Buxaceae. It is native to coastal southeast China, from Hong Kong and other Guangdong islands down to Hainan, and to Vietnam. Care must be taken when purchasing, as many specimens labeled Buxus harlandii are actually Buxus microphylla.

匙叶黄杨（学名：Buxus harlandii）为黄杨科黄杨属的常綠灌木植物，为中国的特有種。分布于中国大陆的海南、廣東東部沿海以及香港的大潭篤和烏蛟騰。一般生长在溪边或疏林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。本種現已用作庭園栽培和盆景

匙葉黃楊於1858年在香港島大潭篤發現