Lindera communis Hemsl.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Evergreen shrubs or trees, (1-)3-4(-5) m tall, ca. 25 cm d.b.h. Bark brownish. One-year-old branchlets stout, glabrous, with irregular longitudinal splits; current year branchlets slender, green and brown when dry, striate, laxly or densely yellow-white pubescent, with many bud scale scars at base. Terminal bud ovate, ca. 5 mm. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-8 mm, yellow-brown pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaf blade gray-green or yellowish abaxially, green adaxially, lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, (3-)4-9(-12.5) × (1-)1.5-3(-4.5) cm, thinly leathery or thickly leathery, yellow-brown pubescent, later laxly pubescent or glabrous abaxially, glabrous adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 5-7 pairs, curved, midrib convex abaxially, concave adaxially, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin involute, apex acuminate, acute, or sometimes nearly caudate-acuminate. Umbels solitary or 2, inserted in leaf axil; peduncles very short; involucral bracts 4, early deciduous. Male flowers yellow, ca. 4 mm in diam.; pedicels 2-2.5 mm, slightly golden pubescent; tepals 6, ovate, nearly equal in size, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, laxly golden pubescent or nearly glabrous outside, apex rounded; stamens 9, 2.5-3 mm; filament slightly pubescent or glabrous, equal to length of anthers, 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands broadly reniform, cornute; pistil reduced; ovary ovate, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; style and stigma hebetate. Female flowers yellow or yellow-white; tepals 6, ovate, ca. 2 mm, pubescent outside; reduced stamens 9, fasciated, ca. 1.5 mm, 2-glandular at filament base in 3rd whorl; ovary elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; style ca. 2 mm; stigma peltate, papillate. Fruit ovate, ca. 1 cm × 7-8 mm, sometimes rather small and subglobose, glabrous, red at maturity; stipes 4-7 mm, yellow-brown pubescent. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Sep-Oct.
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An evergreen shrub or tree. It grows 3-4 m tall. The trunk can be 25 cm across. Male and female flowers occur on separate plants. The leaves are alternate and yellowish green underneath. They are narrowly oval and 4-9 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. The fruit are oval and 1 cm long. They are red at maturity.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 3.0 - 4.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 1.1
Flower color
Blooming months
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OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
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OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in broad-leaved evergreen forests in China. It grows in dry sandy places. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Dry sandy places, evergreen broad-leaved forests in China.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-4
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The dried and powdered leaves are occasionally used as a flavouring. The seed oil is used in food.
Uses essential oil food material medicinal oil
Edible leaves seeds
Therapeutic use Rheumatism (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Images

Leaf

Lindera communis leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)
Lindera communis leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

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

Conservation status

Lindera communis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465346-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070316
COL ID 72GB2
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Benzoin formosanum Benzoin commune Lindera communis Litsea cavaleriei Lindera bodinieri Lindera sterrophylla Litsea esquirolii Lindera paxiana Lindera glauca var. nitidula Lindera communis var. esquirolii Lindera formosana Lindera yunnanensis