Machilus ovatiloba S.K.Lee

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Machilus

Characteristics

Trees, 15-20 m tall. Branchlets gray-brown, conspicuously lenticellate, rough; current year branchlets reddish brown, slender, compressed and angular, glabrous. Petiole 1-2 cm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially ± glaucous, elliptic to oblong, 10.5-20 × 3.5-7 cm, firmly papery, abaxially appressed puberulent, adaxially glabrous, midrib abaxially raised, adaxially impressed, lateral veins 9-13 pairs, slender, veinlets adaxially densely reticulate, foveolate, base broadly cuneate, decurrent, sometimes oblique, apex acuminate, summit occasionally falcate. Flowers not seen. Infructescences terminal, 12-15 cm, glabrous; peduncle compressed and angular, branched at middle or upper part of peduncle. Fruit globose, 2.3-3 cm in diam.; persistent perianth lobes subequal, ovate, ca. 3 mm, glabrous outside, sericeous inside; fruiting pedicel ca. 5 mm, angular, reddish when fresh.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 15.0 - 20.0
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Distribution

Machilus ovatiloba world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466238-1
WFO ID wfo-0001071734
COL ID 3WZ29
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Synonyms

Machilus ovatiloba Persea ovatiloba