Machilus gamblei King ex Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Machilus

Characteristics

Trees, to 25 m tall; trunk to 40 cm d.b.h. Bark blackish brown or brownish. Branchlets slender, terete, with 3-5 circular scars, young shoots with densely gray-yellow pubescence, becoming glabrate. Terminal buds tomentose. Petiole 5-20 mm, sericeous; leaf blade oblong, obovate, or oblanceolate, (5-)6-15 × 1.5-5.5 cm, thinly leathery, ferruginous appressed sericeous on both surfaces when young, abaxially glaucescent-green and minutely pubescent especially along veins and adaxially glabrate when old, midrib abaxially elevated, adaxially concave, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, slightly conspicuous on both surfaces, veinlets inconspicuous. Numerous panicles arising from lower part of young shoots, 4-13 cm; peduncle (2-)4-8.5 cm, densely grayish sericeous. Flowers white or yellowish. Perianth lobes subequal, oblong, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm, densely minutely gray-white sericeous. Stamens ca. 3 mm, barbate at base; glands of 3rd series shortly stipitate. Staminodes sagittate. Ovary subglobose. Fruit globose, 7-8 mm in diam., blackish when ripe. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jun.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 22.5
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AprMayJun
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses animal food fodder medicinal
Edible barks
Therapeutic use Asthma (bark), Analgesics (leaf), Antiviral agents (leaf), Oral ulcer (leaf), Analgesics (whole plant)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Machilus gamblei world distribution map, present in China, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Machilus gamblei threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466173-1
WFO ID wfo-0001071297
COL ID 3WYXR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Machilus bombycina Persea gamblei Machilus gamblei Machilus suaveolens Persea suaveolens Persea bombycina