Macaranga sampsonii Hance

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Macaranga

Characteristics

Small trees or shrubs, 2-7 m tall. Branchlets yellowish brown tomentose when young, becoming glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Stipules lanceolate, 7-10 × 2-3 mm, pubescent, deciduous; petiole 5-13 cm, pilose; leaf blade deltoid-ovate or orbicular-ovate, 12-17 × 11-15 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially pubescent and sparsely glandular-scaly, base subtruncate or broadly cuneate and narrowly peltate, with 2 glands, margin repand or coarsely serrate, apex acuminate; palmate veins 7-9. Male and female inflorescences paniculate, 7-14 cm, pubescent; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 5-12 mm, apex caudate, margin 1-3-dentate. Male flowers 5 or 6 per bract; pedicel ca. 1 mm; sepals 3, ca. 1 mm, puberulent; stamens (3 or)4(or 5). Female flower solitary; sepals (3 or)4, ovate, ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent; ovary 2-locular; style 2, ca. 2 mm. Fruiting pedicel 2-4 mm; capsule 2-lobed, ca. 8 mm wide, glandular-scaly. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 2.0 - 7.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Distribution

Macaranga sampsonii world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:351350-1
WFO ID wfo-0000232230
COL ID 3WXGP
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Synonyms

Macaranga sampsonii