Litsea coelestis H.P.Tsui

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Litsea

Characteristics

Evergreen trees, ca. 10 m tall. Branchlets brown tomentose when young, gradually becoming sparsely so. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-2 cm, with dense black-brown pubescence; leaf blade blue-green abaxially, long elliptic, long ovate, or obovate-lanceolate, 12-25 × 4-9 cm, brown pubescent abaxially, more densely so along veins, sparsely brown pubescent adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 7-13 pairs, base cuneate or rotund, apex acuminate. Umbels few on axillary short branchlets, with dense brown pubescence, male umbel 4-or 5-flowered, female 12-flowered. Male flowers: perianth segments 6; stamens 9; filaments pilose, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate glands at base. Female flowers: staminodes 9; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous. Fruit globose, ca. 7 mm in diam., black at maturity, seated on discoid perianth tube; fruiting pedicel 6-9 mm, with sparse brown pubescence.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Distribution

Litsea coelestis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:976203-1
WFO ID wfo-0001072256
COL ID 3VMZW
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Synonyms

Litsea coelestis