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形态描述
常绿乔木，高12 m。嫩枝秃净无毛，多少有棱，干后红褐色；老枝圆柱形，灰褐色。叶片陆续零星脱落，落叶前变紫红或鲜红色；叶纸质，倒披针形，长7～13 cm，宽2～4.5 cm，先端短渐尖，基部变窄而下延，边缘有小钝齿，侧脉7～8对，两面无毛，干后黄绿色；叶柄长4～7 mm。总状花序常生于无叶的去年枝上，长5～10 cm，纤细，花序轴有微毛；萼片5，披针形，长3～4 mm，外面有短毛；花瓣5，白色，长3～4 mm，无毛，先端撕裂至中部呈流苏状，裂片14～18条；雄蕊20～30枚，花药顶端具毛丛；花盘5裂，被毛；子房2～3室，有毛。核果椭圆形，长1～1.5 cm，径0.5～0.8 cm。花期7月，果期10-11月。
分布地区
见于西湖景区（飞来峰、六和塔、珍珠寺），区内多见栽培。分布于长江以南地区。
主要用途
树杆端直，冠形美观，一年四季常挂几片红叶，是庭园观赏和绿化的优良树种。
中国植物志英文版
Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets red-brown when dry, ± angular, glabrous; buds pubescent. Petiole nearly absent or to 4(-10) mm, black when dry, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially greenish, ± shiny, adaxially greenish yellow when dry, shiny, oblanceolate, (6-)8-12(-20) × (2.5-)3-4 cm, papery or membranous, glabrous, abaxially not glandular, lateral veins 7-9 per side, prominently raised abaxially, veinlets sparse, slightly prominent abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, base narrow and decurrent, margin minutely crenate, apex acute, acumen obtuse. Racemes in leaf axils of second-year branches, 5-10 cm, slender; peduncles puberulent. Pedicel 5-6 mm. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, lanceolate, ca. 5 × 1.5 mm, abaxially puberulent. Petals 5, white, 5-6 mm, broader in upper part, narrow at base, abaxially glabrous, 14-18-laciniate. Stamens 20-30, ca. 3.5 mm; filaments very short; anthers fascicled, not awned but pubescent at apices. Disk 5-lobed, pubescent. Ovary 2- or 3-loculed, pubescent; style 3-5 mm, puberulent. Drupe ellipsoid, 3.4-4.2 × 1-1.5 cm; endocarp thinly bony, shallowly lacunose (furrowed). Fl. Jul, fr. Aug-Oct. ● Evergreen forests; 300-1500 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang.----from “Flora of China”
