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Hippophae neurocarpa S.W.Liu & T.N.Ho

Species

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Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It usually has a flat top. It grows to 3.5 m tall. The leafy stems are not branched and have a spine at the tip. The leaves are alternate and silvery underneath. They are 2-6 cm long by 2-4 mm wide. The fruit are brown or a yellowish-red. They are cylinder shaped and curved. They have 5-7 ribs. The fruit are 6-8 mm long by 3-4 mm wide. They have silvery scales. The seed is cylinder shaped and curved. It is 4-6 mm long and has ridges along it.
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Shrubs or dwarf trees, usually flat-topped, 0.6-3.5 m tall. Leafy stems slender, unbranched, spine tipped. Leaves alternate; leaf blade abaxially silvery, 2-6(-8) × 0.2-0.4 cm, margin revolute or flat. Fruit brown or yellowish red, ± cylindric, distinctly curved, with 5-7 ribs, 5.5-8(-9) × 3-4 mm, silvery scaly. Endocarp difficult to separate from seed. Seed cylindric, curved, 4-6 mm, surface mat, longitudinally ridged. 2n = 24*.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination anemogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 15.0
Root system -
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Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Open sunny places in montane areas. Valley bottoms, flood plains, river banks and terraces; at elevations from 3,400-4,400 metres.
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It grows in valley bottoms and river banks between 3,400-4,400 m above sea level. In Sichuan.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-9
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

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

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
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Distribution

Hippophae neurocarpa world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:323849-1
WFO ID wfo-0001046530
COL ID 3M2F7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Hippophae neurocarpa Hippophae neurocarpa subsp. neurocarpa Hippophae rhamnoides subsp. neurocarpa

Lower taxons

Hippophae neurocarpa subsp. stellatopilosa
WorldFloraDB 2024