Endospermum chinense Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Endospermum

Characteristics

Trees 6-35 m tall; bark gray-brown; young branches, inflorescences, and fruits densely gray-yellow stellate-puberulent; branchlets stout, gray-brown, glabrescent, leaf scars prominent, gray-white. Stipules triangular-ovate, 3-4 mm, hairy; petiole 4-9 cm; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, broadly ovate, or rotund, 8-20 × 4-14 cm, thinly leathery, both surfaces subglabrous or abaxially only sparsely stellate-hairy, base broadly cuneate to truncate or shallowly cordate, basal glands 2, globose, margins entire, apex acute to obtuse; lateral veins 5-7. Inflorescences axillary, male 10-20 cm, female 6-10 cm; bracts ovate, 1-2 mm. Male flowers: calyx cupular, with 4 or 5 shallow crenulations; stamens 5-12, in 2 or 3 series, inserted in elevated receptacle; filaments ca. 1 mm. Female flowers: calyx cupular, ca. 2 mm, undulately 3-5-lobed, hairy, persistent; disk annular, 2-4-serrate-lobed; ovary subglobose, tomentulose, 2-or 3-locular; styles very short, stigmatiform, confluent into a disk. Fruits subglobose, ca. 1 cm in diam. Seeds ellipsoid, ca. 7 mm. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Nov.
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A tree. It grows 6-35 m tall. The young branches, flowers ad fruit have yellow hairs. The leaves are 8-20 cm long by 4-14 m wide. The fruit are a flattened round shape and 1 cm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 15.5 - 35.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 1.1
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Primary and secondary forest, often along streams and on water logged or on dry sandy soil, at elevations from 50-500 metres.
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It is a subtropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Endospermum chinense world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:345278-1
WFO ID wfo-0000949014
COL ID 39SCM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Endospermum chinense