Lindera erythrocarpa Makino

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, deciduous, up to 5 m tall. Bark gray-brown. Young branchlets usually gray-white or gray-yellow, many lenticellate, scabrous from corky protuberances. Winter buds long conical, ca. 1 cm. Leaves alternate; petiole 0.5-1 cm; leaf blade usually oblanceolate, occasionally obovate, (5-)9-12(-15) × (1.5-)4-5(-6) cm, papery, greenish white and appressed pubescent abaxially and densely on veins, green and laxly appressed pubescent adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, base narrowly cuneate, usually decurrent, apex acuminate. Umbels each inserted at both sides of axillary bud; peduncles ca. 5 mm; involucral bracts 4, ciliate, 15-17-flowered inside. Male flowers: pedicels laxly pubescent, ca. 3.5 mm; tepals 6, yellow-green, nearly equal, elliptic, apex rounded, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm, laxly pubescent outside, glabrous inside; stamens 9, equal in length, ca. 1.8 mm; filaments glabrous, 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands broadly reniform, shortly stipitate; reduced pistil exserted at center. Female flowers rather small; pedicels ca. 1 mm; tepals 6, nearly equal in inside and outside whorls, elliptic, apex rounded, ca. 1.2 × 0.6 mm, densely pubescent outside and laxly appressed pubescent inside; reduced stamens 9, ca. 0.8 mm, 2-glandular at base of filaments in 3rd whorl; glands elliptic, sessile; anthers fasciated; pistils ca. 1 mm; ovary narrowly ellipsoid; style rather thick, equal to length of ovary; stigma disciform. Fruits globose, 7-8 mm in diam., red at maturity; stipes 1.5-1.8 cm, gradually thickening toward hypocarpium; hypocarpium indistinctly enlarged, 3-4 mm in diam. Fl. Apr, fr. Sep-Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Uses material medicinal
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Images

Fruit

Lindera erythrocarpa fruit picture by Miguel A. García (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Lindera erythrocarpa world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Taiwan, Province of China

Conservation status

Lindera erythrocarpa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465359-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070580
COL ID 72FQB
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Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Benzoin erythrocarpum Lindera erythrocarpa Lindera funiushanensis Lindera henanensis Lindera erythrocarpa var. longipes