Cornus parviflora S.S.Chien

Species

Angiosperms > Cornales > Cornaceae > Cornus

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs, 3–8 m tall. Bark yellowish brown. Young branches slender, 4-angled, with sparse grayish trichomes; old branches grayish brown, with sparse yellowish brown lenticels. Leaves opposite; leaf blade abaxially light green, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 4–6.5 × 1.6–3.3 cm, papery, abaxially not papillate, with sparse white, short appressed trichomes, veins 3 or 4, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, apex acuminate to ± caudate. Corymbose cymes 4–12 cm wide, pubescent with light yellowish white short trichomes, occasionally with a lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, leaflike bract. Pedicels 0.3–2 mm. Flowers white, ca. 4.5 mm in diam. Calyx lobes broadly triangular, 0.3–0.4 mm, slightly longer than disk. Petals oblong-lanceolate or ligulate-oblong, ca. 2.5 × 1 mm. Stamens shorter than petals; anthers narrowly obovoid. Style cylindrical, ca. 2 mm; stigma punctiform. Fruit obovoid or nearly oblong, 5–6 mm, ca. 4 mm in diam. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 3.0 - 8.0
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OctNovDec
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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 parviflora world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Cornus parviflora threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:271633-1
WFO ID wfo-0000924796
COL ID YGLP
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Synonyms

Swida parviflora Cornus parviflora