Ardisia humilis

Taxobox
name = "Ardisia humilis"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Ardisia humilis" grown as a potted plant
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ericales
familia = Myrsinaceae
genus = "Ardisia"
species = "A. humilis"
binomial = "Ardisia humilis"
binomial_authority = Vahl

"Ardisia humilis" is a species of "Ardisia" in the family Myrsinaceae, native to southeastern Asia in southern China (Guangdong, Hainan), the Philippines, and Vietnam.Flora of China: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200016775 "Ardisia humilis"] ]

It is an evergreen shrub growing to 1–2 m (rarely to 5 m) tall. The leaves are broad ovate to elliptical, 15–18 cm long and 5–7 cm broad, with a leathery texture and an acute apex. The flowers are reddish purple to pink, 5–6 mm diameter; they are produced in corymbs in mid spring. The fruit is a red to dark purple drupe 6 mm diameter, containing a single seed, mature in the late autumn.

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