Neolitsea menglaensis Y.C.Yang & P.H.Huang

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Neolitsea

Characteristics

Large trees, ca. 10 m tall, ca. 35 cm d.b.h. Branchlets stout, glabrous. Leaves alternate or 3-5 clustered at apex of branchlet; petiole 1-2 cm, slightly flat, glabrous; leaf blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 4.5-10.5 × 1.2-4.3 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, trinerved, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, lowermost pair arising from base, with 6-8 curved thin veinlets at one side near margin, apex acuminate, rotund, or broadly cuneate. Umbels 1-to more fascicled in leaf axils, female umbel 5-flowered; peduncle stout and short. Pedicel 3-4 mm, densely sericeous-pubescent. Perianth segments 4, ovate. Female flowers: staminodes 6(-8); filaments pubescent, of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate rounded glands at base; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; style slender, exserted, with sericeous pubescence; stigma large, 2-lobed. Fl. Jan.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Distribution

Neolitsea menglaensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466997-1
WFO ID wfo-0001071932
COL ID 46L7M
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Synonyms

Neolitsea menglaensis