Lindera chunii Merr.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, ca. 6 m tall. Young branchlets slender, ca. 1 mm in diam., pubescent, later gradually deciduous. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-10 mm, white or golden and appressed sericeous, later deciduous; leaf blade elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 5-10 × 1.5-4 cm, papery, white or golden and appressed sericeous on both surfaces when young, later only sericeous on veins and nerve axil, olivaceous when dry, trinerved, lateral veins reaching apex, base cuneate or acute, apex caudate-acuminate. Umbels several inserted at short branch in leaf axil, short branch elongate in bloom, later umbel inserted at branch base, 4-6-flowered; male umbel pedunculate, peduncles 5-7 mm, pubescent; female umbel pedunculate, peduncles 3-4 mm, pubescent. Male flowers: pedicels 2-3 mm, densely brown pubescent, with involucral trace at base; perianth tube densely villous; tepals oblong, ca. 1.4 × 0.5 mm, pubescent on outer surface, glabrous on inner surface, apex shortly acuminate or rounded; stamens ca. 1.3 mm; anthers broadly elliptic; filaments ca. 1 mm, brown-yellow pubescent, 2-glandular near base in 2nd whorl; glands obovate, stipitate; reduced pistil ca. 0.5 mm; ovary ellipsoid; style and stigma forming an obtuse mucro. Female flowers: perianth tube funnelform, ca. 1 mm; tepals fasciated, apex acuminate, with obtuse mucro, ca. 1.5 × 0.3 mm, slightly longer in inner whorl, brown pubescent on outer surface; reduced stamens fasciated, ca. 1.2 mm, brown pubescent, 2-glandular below middle in 3rd whorl; glands elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 0.7 mm, pubescent; style ca. 1 mm, pubescent; stigma disciform. Fruits ellipsoid, 8-10 × 6-7 mm, glabrous. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 6.0
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JanFebMar
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JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Lindera chunii world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Lindera chunii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465342-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070790
COL ID 72GB4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lindera chunii