Cornus hongkongensis subsp. gigantea (Hand.-mazz.) Q.Y.Xiang

Subspecies

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Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, 2–6 m tall. Old branches gray or grayish green. Leaf blade obovate, rarely broadly elliptic, 8.5–16 × 3.8–7.5 cm, leathery to thickly leathery, abaxially sparsely pubescent with appressed short trichomes when young, glabrous in age, axils of veins without or rarely with clusters of dark brown trichomes, veins often 4, conspicuous, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences 1.4–2 cm in diam., ca. 60-flowered; bracts yellowish or white, broadly obovate or nearly orbicular, ca. 4 × 3–4.2 cm, nearly glabrous. Calyx tube ca. 1.3 mm, often shallowly 4-lobed, rarely 5-lobed, outside pubescent. Petals ovate-lanceolate, ca. 4.2 × 1.1 mm, outside sparsely pubescent. Filaments ca. 4 mm; anthers ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 1.2 mm. Style ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent with white trichomes. Compound fruit yellowish red at maturity, ca. 2.5 cm in diam.; peduncle 8–9.5 cm. Fl. Apr–May, fr. unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 2.0 - 6.0
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 90 - 730
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
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Distribution

Cornus hongkongensis subsp. gigantea world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:953437-1
WFO ID wfo-0000924712
COL ID 5GM67
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Synonyms

Cornus gigantea Dendrobenthamia pachyphylla Dendrobenthamia gigantea Benthamidia hongkongensis var. gigantea Cornus hongkongensis subsp. gigantea Cornus hongkongensis var. gigantea