Ehretia asperula Zoll. & Moritzi

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Ehretia

Characteristics

Climbing shrub. Young branches reddish to greyish brown, covered with loose patent bristles that often have a bulbous base. Leaves: petiole (0.5—)0.8—1(—1.5) cm; blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, (1.5—)3—15 by 0.8-5.5 cm, entire or widely repanded dentate, base narrowly rounded to obliquely truncate, apex acuminate, nerves (4-)5(-6) on each side, glabrous on both sides or with few hairs along nerves beneath. Inflorescence terminal and lateral on short branches, loosely corymbose to paniculoid, patent bristly, with numerous flowers; pedicels 0.8-3 mm long. Calyx cup-shaped, 1.2-1.5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, lobes free for 1/3 to 1/2, triangular, densely strigillose with very short, reddish hairs. Corolla broadly and shortly campanulate, white, 1.5-1.8 mm long, 3.5-4 mm in diam., lobes wider than long, 1 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, broadly rounded. Stamens very long exserted. Pistil: style 3.5 mm long, the branches free for 1/3 or a little more, the stigmata indistinct. Fruit globose to subglobose, c. 3.5 mm in diameter.
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Shrubs climbing, 3-5 m tall; branches gray-brown, stout, glabrous; branchlets brown or light brown, pubescent when young. Petiole 0.6-1.5 cm, tuberculate; leaf blade broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 3-12 × 2-6 cm, leathery, glabrous or abaxially pubescent in vein axils, base rounded, margin usually entire, apex obtuse or mucronate. Cymes light brown, terminating branchlets, flat topped, 4-6 cm wide, pubescent; bracts linear to linear-oblanceolate, 3-10 mm, sometimes curved, persistent. Pedicel 1.5-3 mm. Calyx brown, 1.5-2.5 mm, pubescent. Corolla white, funnelform, 3.5-4 mm, base ca. 1.5 mm wide; throat ca. 5 mm wide; lobes triangular-ovate, 2-2.5 mm, slightly longer than tube. Filaments 3.5-4 mm, inserted at upper part of base, ca. 1 mm; anthers ca. 1 mm. Style 3-4 mm, branches ca. 1 mm. Drupes red or orange, 3-4 mm in diam.; endocarp divided at maturity into 4 1-seeded pyrenes.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Ehretia asperula world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:115973-1
WFO ID wfo-0000663345
COL ID 6DYSX
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Synonyms

Ehretia asperula Ehretia hanceana