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

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Litsea

Characteristics

Evergreen small trees, ca. 5 m tall. Old branchlets glabrous, with thin corky bark and conspicuous lenticels; young branchlets glabrous or pilose. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-15 mm, glabrous or pilose on both sides; leaf blade oblanceolate or narrowly long elliptic, 6-17 × 1.5-5 cm, along veins pilose or glabrous abaxially, glabrous adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 13-15 pairs, base cuneate, apex abruptly acute. Umbels axillary; male umbel 5-flowered; peduncle very short. Male flowers: pedicel ca. 2 mm; perianth segments 6, ovate-rounded; fertile stamens 9; filaments villous, of 3rd whorls each with 2 rounded small glands at base; rudimentary pistil lacking. Fruit ellipsoid, 10-12 × 5-7 mm, seated on cup-shaped perianth tube; fruiting pedicel 3-4 mm, pubescent. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Oct-Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 5.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Distribution

Litsea suberosa world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Litsea suberosa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466045-1
WFO ID wfo-0001071900
COL ID 3VNF4
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Synonyms

Litsea suberosa Litsea elongata var. suberosa