Daphne axillaris (Merr. & Chun) Chun & Wei

Shrubs 2-5 m tall. Branches pale yellowish green, turning grayish brown, sparsely brown appressed pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 4-7 mm, appressed pubescent; leaf blade shiny green adaxially, paler abaxially, oblong to elliptic, 5-12 × (1.5-)2-4.5 cm, papery or subleathery, both surfaces glabrous or midrib sometimes sparsely pubescent abaxially, base broadly cuneate, apex caudate-acuminate; veins 8-10 pairs. Inflorescences axillary, 2-4(-8)-flowered; peduncle 1-2 mm; bracts absent. Pedicel absent. Calyx white; tube cylindric, 6-10 mm, exterior pubescent; lobes 5, ovate, 2.5-3 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl just below lobes; filaments short; anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm; upper ones partly exserted from calyx tube. Disk annular, pubescent, entire. Ovary ovoid, ca. 2.5 mm, densely pilose; style short; stigma capitate or shallowly discoid. Drupe black or purple, narrowly ovoid, 8-10 mm, puberulous. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Oct.

Hainan.

● Dense forests; 600-900 m.

Wikstroemia axillaris Merrill & Chun, Sunyatsenia 5: 139. 1940.