Firmiana kwangsiensis H.H.Hsue

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Firmiana

Characteristics

Deciduous trees, up to 10 m tall; bark gray, not flaking. Branchlets gray-brown, nearly glabrous; young buds densely yellow-brown stellate puberulent. Petiole to 20 cm, minutely yellowish brown stellate hairy; leaf blade broadly ovate or nearly round, 10-17 × 9-17 cm, entire or apically 3-lobed, papery, both surfaces sparsely puberulent, densely hairy in axils of veins, basal veins 5-7, veinlets prominent on both sides, nearly parallel, base truncate or nearly cordate, lobes acuminate or acute, 2-3 cm. Inflorescence cymose-racemose, 5-7 cm. Pedicels 4-8 mm, golden to red-brown stellate hairy. Calyx cylindric, ca. 32 × 11 mm, apically 5-lobed, abaxially golden to red-brown stellate hairy, adaxially bright red stellate pilose, lobes triangular-ovate, ca. 4 mm. Male flowers: androgynophore ca. 28 mm. Anthers 15, in capitate cluster. Fruit unknown. Fl. Jun.
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Distribution

Firmiana kwangsiensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:823341-1
WFO ID wfo-0000691041
COL ID 6J4SK
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Synonyms

Erythropsis kwangsiensis Firmiana kwangsiensis