Lindera aggregata (Sims) Kosterm.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 5 m tall, ca. 4 cm d.b.h.; roots fusiform-inflated or nodose-inflated, 3.5-8 × 0.7-2.5 cm, brown-yellow or brown-black and rugose on surface, aromatic. Bark gray-brown. Young branchlets blue-green, longitudinally striate, densely golden sericeous or laxly pubescent, later gradually deciduous and glabrous, brown when dry. Terminal bud narrowly elliptic. Leaves alternate; petiole 0.5-1 cm, brown pubescent, later gradually deciduous; leaf blade pale abaxially, green and shiny adaxially, narrowly ovate, broadly elliptic, subrounded, or lanceolate, 2.7-6 × 1.3-4 cm, sometimes up to 7 cm, leathery or subleathery, densely brown pubescent abaxially, later gradually deciduous, sometimes slightly black pubescent, trinerved, midrib and lateral veins distinctly convex abaxially, concave adaxially, rarely convex, base rounded, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Umbels 6-8, inserted in short branchlet, axillary, not pedunculate, each with a bract and 7 flowers; short branchlets 1-2 mm. Pedicels ca. 0.4 mm, pubescent. Tepals 6, yellow or yellow-green, sometimes milky white and slightly purple-red, white pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Male flowers: tepals ca. 4 × 2 mm; stamens 3-4 mm; filament laxly pubescent, 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands reniform, stipitate, sometimes 1 or 2 at filament base in 2nd whorl; reduced pistil urceolate. Female flowers: tepals ca. 2.5 × 2 mm; reduced stamens fasciated, ca. 1.5 mm, laxly pubescent, 2-glandular at filament base in 3rd whorl; glands stipitate; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 mm, brown pubescent; stigma capitate. Fruits ovate or sometimes subrounded, 0.6-1 cm × 4-7 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 9.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Shrub thickets along mountainsides. Sunny mountain slopes, valleys, sparse forests and thickets; at elevations from 200-1,000 metres in China.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 2-5
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

Usage

Uses essential oil material medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Ache(Back) (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Balsamic (unspecified), Carminative (unspecified), Diaphoretic (unspecified), Dysmenorrhea (unspecified), Flux (unspecified), Gonorrhea (unspecified), Hernia (unspecified), Malaria (unspecified), Menorrhagia (unspecified), Stimulant (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Trauma (unspecified), Tumor(Thyroid) (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Urogenital (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Lindera aggregata unspecified picture

Distribution

Lindera aggregata world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Myanmar, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Lindera aggregata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465318-1
WFO ID wfo-0000365428
COL ID 6QFZ2
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Lindera aggregata Benzoin strychnifolium Lindera eberhardtii Lindera strychnifolia Daphnidium strychnifolium Daphnidium myrrha Daphnidium strychnifolium Lindera aggregata var. aggregata Laurus aggregata

Lower taxons

Lindera aggregata var. playfairii