Litsea rubescens Lecomte

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Litsea

Characteristics

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, 4-10 m tall. Young branchlets red, glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 12-16 mm, red when young, glabrous; leaf blade elliptic, lanceolate-elliptic, or rounded-elliptic, 4-6 × 1.7-3.5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, pinninerved, lateral veins 5-7 pairs, prominent on both surfaces and red when young, base and apex attenuate or apex rounded-obtuse. Umbels axillary, male umbel 10-12-flowered; peduncle 5-10 mm, glabrous. Male flowers: pedicel 3-4 mm, with gray-yellow pubescence; perianth segments 6, yellow, broadly elliptic; fertile stamens 9; filaments short, glabrous, of 3rd whorls each with 2 small yellow glands at base; rudimentary pistil small. Fruit globose, ca. 8 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel ca. 8 mm, pilose. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Sep-Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 5.5 - 8.5
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Flower color
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JanFebMar
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JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Forests, forest margins, gaps of evergreen broad-leaved forests in valleys, thickets on mountain slopes; at elevations from 700-3,800 metres.
Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Litsea rubescens world distribution map, present in Brunei Darussalam, China, and Myanmar

Conservation status

Litsea rubescens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465997-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070705
COL ID 3VNDL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Litsea rubescens Litsea forrestii Litsea rubescens f. nanchuanensis Litsea rubescens var. rubescens Litsea rubescens var. gulinensis