Prinsepia uniflora Batalin

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs 1–2 m tall. Branches purplish brown, robust, glabrous; branchlets grayish green to grayish brown, longitudinally angled, glabrous or pubescent; spines usually erect, 6–10 mm, usually leafless. Winter buds purplish red, ovoid, glabrous. Petiole short to leaf subsessile, subglabrous; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, narrowly oblong, oblong, ovate-oblong, ovate-lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 2–5.5 × 0.6–0.8 cm, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin repand to conspicuously serrulate, apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescences 1-flowered or to 3-flowered fascicle; bracts not seen. Flowers 8–10 mm in diam. Pedicel 3–15 mm, glabrous. Hypanthium turbinate, outside glabrous. Sepals triangular-ovate to semiorbicular, reflexed in fruit, outside glabrous, margin entire, apex obtuse. Petals white with purple veins, obovate, 5–6 mm, base broadly cuneate and shortly clawed, margin apically erose. Stamens 10, in 2 whorls. Ovary glabrous. Style short. Drupe reddish brown to blackish brown, globose, 0.8–1.2 cm in diam., glabrous, lustrous. Fl. May, fr. Jun–Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 3.0
Mature height (meter) 1.8
Root system -
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Loess plateaux, areas intermediate between woodland and steppe. Sunny slopes, ravines in valleys, base of hills at elevations of 800-2200 metres.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-7

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
Edible fruits seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
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Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Images

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Distribution

Prinsepia uniflora world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:729395-1
WFO ID wfo-0000986080
COL ID 4MDZC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Prinsepia uniflora Sinoplagiospermum uniflorum Prinsepia uniflora var. uniflora