Litsea veitchiana Gamble

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Litsea

Characteristics

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, up to 4 m tall. Young branchlets yellow-white long sericeous and becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-1.2 cm, densely hairy like young branchlets and becoming glabrous; leaf blade obovate or obovate-oblong, 4-15 × 2.5-5.5 cm, densely hairy like young branchlets on both surfaces when young, becoming sparsely long sericeous abaxially, glabrous or only midrib hairy adaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, apex acute or obtuse. Umbels solitary at apex of 1-year-old branchlets, 10-13-flowered, flowering before leaves or with leaves. Male flowers: pedicel 5-7 mm; perianth segments 6, elliptic or rotund, 3-nerved and glandular; fertile stamens 9; filaments pubescent at base, of 3rd whorls each with 2 large glands at base; rudimentary pistil ovoid. Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., young fruit glabrous or appressed puberulent, black at maturity; fruiting pedicel 1.5-2 cm, sparsely long hairy. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 3.5
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Environment

Roadsides or thickets on mountain slopes; at elevations from 400-3,800 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Litsea veitchiana world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Litsea veitchiana threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466100-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070661
COL ID 3VNGS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Litsea veitchiana Litsea chenii Litsea veitchiana var. veitchiana

Lower taxons

Litsea veitchiana var. trichocarpa