Neolitsea aurata (Hayata) Koidz.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Neolitsea

Characteristics

Trees, up to 14 m tall, ca. 18 cm d.b.h. Young branchlets and petioles ferruginous or yellow-brown pubescent or glabrous. Leaves alternate or clustered toward apex of branchlet; petiole 8-12 mm; leaf blade oblong, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or oblong-obovate, 8-14 × 2.5-4 cm, densely golden yellow sericeous or white, yellow, brown-yellow, or red-brown sericeous abaxially when young, glabrous adaxially, triplinerved, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, lowermost pair arising 2-3 mm from base, base cuneate or rotund, apex acuminate or falcate-acuminate. Umbels 3-5-fascicled toward apex of branchlet or internode, 5-flowered. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Perianth segments 4, elliptic. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments pubescent at base, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate glands at base; rudimentary pistil glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 6 mm, seated on shallowly discoid perianth tube; fruiting pedicel 5-7 mm, pilose.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 12.0
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Root diameter (meter) 0.7
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Broad-leaved forests and forest margins on mountain slopes, weed-tree forests; at elevations from 500-1,900 metres.
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Usage

Uses medicinal oil
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Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Neolitsea aurata world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Neolitsea aurata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466930-1
WFO ID wfo-0001071585
COL ID 46L5J
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Litsea aurata Neolitsea aurata Tetradenia aurata Neolitsea aurata f. glabrescens Neolitsea kwangtungensis Neolitsea aurata var. aurata Neolitsea sericea var. aurata

Lower taxons

Neolitsea aurata var. paraciculata Neolitsea aurata var. chekiangensis Neolitsea aurata var. undulatula