Litsea chinpingensis Y.C.Yang & P.H.Huang

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Litsea

Characteristics

Evergreen trees, 10-20 m tall, ca. 20 cm d.b.h. Young branchlets puberulent and becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-1.8 cm, furrowed, glabrous; leaf blade lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 8-17 × 2.2-4.2 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, pinninerved, lateral veins 7-11 pairs, conspicuously reticulate-veined on both surfaces, base cuneate, apex acuminate or shortly acute. Umbels in cluster of 3 or 4 on short branchlets, axillary, 4-or 5-flowered; peduncle ca. 8 mm, sparsely pubescent. Female flowers: perianth segments 6, ovate or ovate-rounded; staminodes 9-12; filaments pubescent at base, of 3rd or 4th whorls each with 2 subsessile triangular large glands at base; ovary ovoid-rounded; style stout, short; stigma large, peltate, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, ca. 2.2 × 1.5 cm, seated on discoid perianth tube; fruiting pedicel 1.6-2.5 cm, stout. Fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Distribution

Litsea chinpingensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465587-1
WFO ID wfo-0001071908
COL ID 3VMZG
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Synonyms

Litsea chinpingensis