Premna fulva Craib

Allied to Premna crassa and P. flavescens but differs in having young branchlets, petioles, and leaves yellow villous with long usually spreading hairs.

Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Branchlets yellow villous when young, subglabrescent. Petiole 1.5-5.5 cm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, elliptic, oblong-ovate, ovate, or subrounded, 4-15 X 3-10 cm, papery, abaxially densely tomentose, adaxially yellow villous especially on veins, base cuneate and oblique, subrounded, or subcordate, margin entire, repand, or serrate, apex acuminate, acute, or rarely subrounded to emarginate; veins 5-7 pairs, abaxially elevated. Inflorescences 2.5-6(-10) X 4-9(-17) cm; branches 5 or 6 pairs, spreading; bracts linear to rarely linear-lanceolate, densely pubescent. CalyX 2-2.5 mm, slightly 2-lipped, 5-dentate, outside pubescent. Corolla greenish white, 4-5 mm, tube ca. 2 mm, slightly 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, upper lip rounded to emarginate, throat pilose, outside puberulent to subglabrous. Stamens as long as style; anthers brown. Ovary apically sparsely pubescent. Fruit black, ovate to globose, 3-5(-6) mm in diam., tuberculate.

SW Guangxi, S Guizhou, S Yunnan [Laos, Thailand, Vietnam]

Mixed evergreen forests; 500-1200 m.

Premna fortunati Dop; P. longipila P'ei.