WorldFloraDB - Sumbaviopsis albicans

Characteristics

Trees, 5-8 m tall; branchlets white-or ochraceous tomentulose when young. Petiole 3-8 cm; leaf blade ovate-oblong to oblong, 10-30 × 5-15 cm, thickly papery, abaxially white-or ochraceous tomentulose, adaxially glabrous, base obtuse, narrowly peltate, apex acuminate or acute. Racemes 6-30 cm, tomentulose; bracts subovate, 2.5-3 mm. Male flowers 2-or 3-fascicled; pedicels 4-5 mm; calyx 5-lobed, ca. 5 mm, stellate-tomentose; petals obovate, 2.5-3 mm; disk absent; stamens 50-70. Female flowers: sepals ovate-oblong or lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, stellate-tomentose; ovary stellate-tomentose; styles 3, 2-3 mm. Fruiting pedicels ca. 1 cm; capsule 2.5-3 cm in diam., ochraceous tomentose. Seeds subglobose, 1.2-1.4 cm in diam., marbled. Fl. and fr. Mar-Dec.

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A tree. It grows 27 m tall. The trunk can be 20 cm across. The leaves are 7-37 cm long by 4-19 cm wide. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit are 2-4 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. They are brown. The seeds are 12-20 mm long by 12-15 mm wide and black.

Life form

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Growth form

tree

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

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Mature height (meter)

27.0

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It is scattered in forests. It grows from sea level to 800 m altitude. It grows in forests on limestones in 400-900 m above sea level. In Yunnan.

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Edible	seeds
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.

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Images

Sumbaviopsis albicans unspecified picture

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:356640-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000317581
COL ID	53FWN
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Sumbavia macrophylla Sumbaviopsis albicans Adisca albicans Cephalocroton albicans Coelodiscus speciosus Doryxylon albicans Rottlera albicans Croton albicans Sumbaviopsis albicans var. disperma Mallotus speciosus

WorldFloraDB 2024

Sumbaviopsis albicans J.J.Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Sumbaviopsis