粗轴荛花Wikstroemia pachyrachis S. L. Tsai

别名：厚轴荛花;

科名：瑞香科 Thymelaeaceae

属名：荛花属 Wikstroemia

《中国植物志》第52(1)卷301页
  4.粗轴荛花（中国高等植物图鉴）厚轴荛花（中山大学学报）图版46: 2
  Wikstroemia pachyrachis S. L. Tsai,中山大学学报5 (2): 101. 1956; 海南植物志1: 437. 1964; 中国高等植物图鉴2: 960, 图3650. 1972; 广西植物志1: 622. 1991.
  灌木，高1-4米；枝粗壮，近无毛，暗褐色，节间短而节膨大，小枝略被柔毛。叶对生，坚纸质，密集，倒卵状椭圆形或长圆状椭圆形，长2.5-7厘米，宽1-1.8厘米，先端急尖或钝，基部宽楔形或钝形，上面干时暗绿色，有光泽，下面粉绿色被细小鳞片，边全缘，略反卷，侧脉每边8-15条，在上面暗淡，在下面较明显，叶柄长约2毫米。花黄绿色，15-26花组成顶生或腋生的头状总状花序，花序直立，总花梗粗壮稍被毛；花萼长约8-10毫米，被疏柔毛，顶端4裂，裂片卵形，长约2毫米，端钝；雄蕊8，2列，着生于花被管中部以上；子房无柄，顶端被毛，花柱短，柱头头状，花盘鳞片2枚，膜质，约为子房长度的1/3。果卵形，长约6毫米，宽4毫米，成熟时红色，果落后在果序轴上留有明显的瘤状痕迹。花期9-10月，果期冬季。
  产广东、海南、广西。常见于海拔较高的山地密林中、灌丛内及岩石上。模式标本采自海南琼中。
  茎皮纤维可造纸及人造棉。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 13 (2007)
Wikstroemia pachyrachis  S. L. Tsai
粗轴荛花   cu zhou rao hua
Daphne pachyrachis (S. L. Tsai) Halda.
Shrubs 1-4 m tall. Branches dark brown, stout, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent, nodes swollen, internodes short. Leaves opposite, densely crowded; petiole 2(-8) mm; leaf blade dark green when dried, glossy adaxially, light green abaxially, obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 2.5-7 × 1-1.8(-2.5) cm, stiffly papery, abaxially covered with fine scales, base broadly cuneate or obtuse, margin slightly revolute, apex acute or obtuse; lateral veins (5-)8-15 pairs, conspicuous abaxially, dark and obscure adaxially. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, capitate, erect, often 15-26-flowered; peduncle to 0.5 cm, stout, sparsely pubescent. Pedicel almost absent. Calyx yellowish green, salverform-cylindric, 8-10 mm, exterior sparsely puberulous; lobes 4, ovate, ca. 2 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 8, inserted above middle of calyx tube. Disk scales 1-3, linear, ca. 1/3 as long as ovary, membranous, apex lobed or truncate. Ovary obovoid-ellipsoid, sessile, apex pubescent or glabrous; style short; stigma capitate. Drupe red, pyriform-ovoid, 6-8 × ca. 4 mm. Fl. Sep-Oct, fr. winter.
● Open forests, rocky shrubby slopes; relatively high elevations. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan (Gan’en).