Ardisia thyrsiflora D. Don

Shrubs or small trees 1.5-5(-9) m tall, densely brown scaly on branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences. Branchlets terete, 2-3 mm in diam. Petiole canaliculate, ca. 1 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 12-20(-22) × 2-4.5 (-6) cm, papery, glossy, densely and minutely scrobiculate adaxially, glabrous or minutely rusty brown scaly abaxially glabrescent, pellucid punctate, base cuneate or narrowly decurrent, margin entire, apex long acuminate, acumen 1.5-2 cm; lateral veins numerous, obscure abaxially, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, paniculate, branches corymbose, 10-20 cm. Flowers papery, pink or purplish red, ca. 4 mm. Pedicel erect, ca. 5 mm. Sepals ovate to elliptic, 1.3-1.5 mm, orange punctate, brown scaly abaxially, pubescent adaxially, margin ciliate, apex acute. Petals nearly free, ovate, 3.8-4 mm, sparsely orange punctate, glabrous, margin entire, apex acute. Stamens subequal to petals; filaments ca. 1.5 mm; anthers ovate to lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, punctate dorsally, apiculate. Ovary glabrous; ovules numerous, multiseriate. Fruit purplish red, globose, often 5-angled, ca. 4 mm in diam., minutely punctate. Fl. Jan-May, fr. Apr-Dec.

Himalaya (Kumaun to Bhutan), Assam.

Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam]

600-1100 m

Broad-leaved forests, woody hillsides, valleys, damp places, thickets; 200-1500 m.

Ardisia austroasiatica E. Walker; A. depressa C. B. Clarke; A. floribunda Wallich (1824), not Roemer & Schultes (1819); A. meziana H. Léveillé (1912), not King & Gamble (1906); A. neriifolia Wallich; A. tenera Mez; A. yunnanensis Mez; Tinus depressa (C. B. Clarke) Kuntze; T. thyrsiflora (D. Don) Kuntze.

Ardisia thyrsiflora là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh thảo. Loài này được D.Don mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1825.

南方紫金牛（学名：Ardisia thyrsiflora）为报春花科紫金牛属下的一个种。