Lindera angustifolia Cheng

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Deciduous shrubs and small trees, 2-8 m tall. Young branchlets yellow-green, glabrous. Winter buds purple-brown, ovate; bud scales keeled, glabrous outside, sericeous-pubescent on dorsum, glabrous on inner surface. Leaves alternate; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate, 6-14 × 1.5-3.5 cm, subleathery, pale and laxly pubescent along veins abaxially, green and glabrous adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Umbels 2 or 3, inserted at base of winter bud, male umbel 3-or 4-flowered, female umbel 2-7-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels 3-5 mm; tepals 6; fertile stamens 9. Female flowers: pedicels 3-6 mm; tepals 6; reduced stamens 9; ovary ovate, glabrous; style ca. 1 mm; stigma capitate. Fruits globose, ca. 8 mm in diam., black at maturity; stipes 0.5-1.5 cm, puberulent or glabrous; hypocarpium ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Sep-Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 2.5 - 4.0
Mature height (meter) 2.25 - 6.0
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

Light 4-6
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-4
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-10

Usage

Uses material medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
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 -

Distribution

Lindera angustifolia world distribution map, present in China and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Conservation status

Lindera angustifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465322-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070788
COL ID 72FYN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Benzoin angustifolium Benzoin sinoglaucum Lindera angustifolia Lindera nakaiana Benzoin angustifolium var. glabrum Lindera angustifolia var. glabra