Tetradium austrosinense (Hand.-mazz.) T.G.Hartley

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Tetradium

Characteristics

Trees to 20 m tall. Leaves 20-35 cm, 7-11-foliolate; leaflet blades broadly elliptic or sometimes ovate, lanceolate, obovate, or oblanceolate, 5.5-14.5(-17) × 2.5-7(-8.5) cm, abaxially glaucous and finely papillate, secondary veins 9-12 on each side of midvein, reticulate veinlets abaxially usually ± conspicuous and ± loose, base in lateral leaflets obtuse to nearly rounded and in terminal leaflet cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 11-18 cm. Flowers (4 or)5-merous. Sepals ca. 0.5 mm. Petals green to greenish yellow but drying brown, 2.5-3 mm, outside glabrous to sparsely puberulent, inside sparsely to densely villous. Ovary glabrous; ovules 1 per carpel. Fruit (including abortive carpels, if any) usually 5-carpelled; follicles trigonous to subtrigonous, ca. 3.5 mm, glabrous or rarely with a few scattered trichomes, apex not beaked; endocarp glabrous. Seeds 1 per follicle and not paired with an abortive seed, ellipsoid to subreniform, 2.3-2.5 mm, attached in dehisced follicle to axile strip of pergamentaceous pericarp tissue; seed coat with thick inner layer of dense black sclerenchyma and spongy outer layer bounded externally by a shiny black pellicle. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Sep-Nov.
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A tree. It grows 20 m tall. The leaves are 20-35 cm long. They have 7-11 leaflets. The leaflets are 5.5-14.5 cm long by 2.5-7 cm wide. The flowering shoots are 11-18 cm long. The flowers have 5 parts. The petals are green to yellow. The fruit have 5 sections. There is one seed in each section. The seeds have a spongy outer layer.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 20.0
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It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

The fruit are eaten and also pressed for oil.
Uses medicinal oil
Edible fruits
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Distribution

Tetradium austrosinense world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:909754-1
WFO ID wfo-0001241966
COL ID 55LZ5
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Synonyms

Euodia austrosinensis Tetradium austrosinense