Schima wallichii (Dc.) Choisy

Species

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Characteristics

Trees 10-15(-20) m tall. Young branches grayish brown, glabrous, densely white lenticellate; current year branchlets yellowish pubescent, longitudinally ribbed; terminal buds white velutinous. Petiole 1-2 cm, yellowish villous; leaf blade elliptic to broadly elliptic, 8-17.5 × 4-7.5 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green becoming brown when dry, sparsely prostrate pubescent, and spreading villous along midvein, adaxially dark green and glabrous, midvein abaxially raised and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 8-12 on each side of midvein, secondary and reticulate veins raised on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex bluntly acute. Flowers axillary, solitary or to 3 in a cluster, white, fragrant, 3-4 cm in diam. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm, gray pubescent, white lenticellate; bracteoles 2, caducous. Sepals lunate to semiorbicular, 1.5-2 × 3-3.5 mm, outside basally glabrous or puberulent, margin ciliolate. Petals white, broadly obovate, 1.5-2 × ca. 1.5 cm, outside basally puberulent, apex rounded. Stamens 8-10 mm; filaments basally adnate with petals. Ovary globose, yellowish tomentose but apically glabrous; style ca. 7 mm, glabrous; stigma 5, capitate. Capsule brown, subglobose, 1.5-2 cm in diam., 5-loculed with 2 seeds per locule; pericarp woody, splitting into 5 valves, white lenticellate. Seeds reniform, together with wing 8-10 × 5-10 mm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Nov-Dec. 2n = 36.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 7.75 - 22.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.2
Flower color
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

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Usage

Uses afforestation dye fodder medicinal poison timber
Edible -
Therapeutic use Antifungal agents (aerial part), Anthelmintics (bark), Antiparasitic agents (bark), Counterirritant (bark), Irritant (bark), Anthelminthic (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Gonorrhea (unspecified), Piscicide (unspecified), Tapeworm (unspecified), Rubefacient (unspecified), HIV infections (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Optimum temperature (C°) 12 - 30
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Images

Flower

Schima wallichii flower picture by Hemanth Kumar (cc-by-sa)
Schima wallichii flower picture by Niels Flach (cc-by-sa)
Schima wallichii flower picture by Daniel Barthelemy (cc-by-nc)

Fruit

Schima wallichii fruit picture by Hemanth Kumar (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Schima wallichii world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:829479-1
WFO ID wfo-0001142186
COL ID 4V8DG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Schima sericea Schima mollis Schima pulgarensis Schima lowii Schima rigida Schima sulcinervia Schima hypoglauca Schima hypochra Schima bancana Gordonia wallichii Gordonia mollis Gordonia oblata Schima antherisosa Gordonia integrifolia Schima wallichii