Microtropis osmanthoides (Hand.-mazz.) Hand.-mazz.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Microtropis

Characteristics

Shrubs, to 6 m tall; branchlets brown or gray-brown. Petiole thick, short, 2.5-5 mm; leaf blade ovate, broadly ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 7-13 × 2.5-8 cm, leathery, abaxially gray-green, becoming gray-brown when dry, adaxially verrucose, becoming gray when dry, with small warts, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex acute or narrowly acuminate; midvein obvious abaxially, yellowish white when dry, secondary veins 7-11 pairs, oblique, straight, obvious. Cymes glomerate, axillary, on branched axis or terminal, generally 5-flowered; peduncle absent, 2-bracteate, bracts triangular-ovate, ca. 1 mm. Flowers 5-merous, sessile; sepals fleshy, nephroid or cordate, 1.5-2 mm wide, margin with small teethlike cilia; petals rectangular, ca. 2.5 mm, margin sometimes erosely small toothed, base with linear, short claws. Disk thin, annular. Filament less than 0.5 mm; anther ovate, ca. 0.5 mm. Ovary triangular-subulate; stigma shallowly 2-lobed. Capsule elliptic, 1.5-2 cm. Seed elliptic-ovate, ca. 1.5 cm.
Life form perennial
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Mature height (meter) 6.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

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Distribution

Microtropis osmanthoides world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:162196-1
WFO ID wfo-0001292806
COL ID 4396N
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Synonyms

Chingithamnus osmanthoides Microtropis osmanthoides