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Turpinia montana Kurz

Species

Angiosperms > Crossosomatales > Staphyleaceae > Turpinia

Characteristics

Shrub or tree up to 15 m. Leaves 3-7-foliolate, below the inflorescence exceptionally with only 1 leaflet; leaflets elliptic to oblong, glabrous, acuminate, decurrent at the base, dentate, 3-10(-15) by 1.5-7.5 cm; nerves straight, very regularly connected by a looped intramarginal vein; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 0.5-3 cm. Stipules c. 3 mm, puberulous, with a short but sharply bifid apex. Panicles axillary, open, up to c. 18 cm long. Sepals ovate, glabrous, ciliate, 1-1.25 by 1¼-2 mm. Petals obovate, glabrous, ciliate, 1-1.25 by 1.25-2 mm. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long; filaments 1-1.25 mm; anthers 1/2-1/3 mm, not or only very slightly apiculate. Ovary (2-)3(-4)-celled, each cell with 2 ovules. Fruit globular, sometimes with 3 radial lines from the top, 8-10 mm diam.; pericarp thin, to 0.5 mm thick; more than one seed developed; testa 0.2-0.3 mm thick.
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Small trees; branches greenish white. Leaves odd-pinnate; rachis ca. 15 cm, slim; leaflets 5; terminal petiolule up to 15 mm, slender, green, lateral ones 2-3 mm; leaflet blades oblong to oblong-oval, (4-)4.5-6 × 1.5-4 cm, papery, glabrous, adaxially green, abaxially greenish, lateral veins many, conspicuous abaxially and faint adaxially, base broadly cuneate, margin sparsely crenate or serrate, apex cuspidate with cusp 5-7 mm. Inflorescence terminal, main axis up to 17 cm. Flowers small, ca. 3 mm in diam., densely arranged on panicle. Sepals broadly ovate, ca. 1.3 mm, glabrous. Petals ovate to rounded, ca. 2 mm, tomentose or glabrescent. Filaments glabrous. Ovary 2-or 3-locular; ovule 1 per locule. Berry dark purple, globose, 4-7 mm in diam., exocarp thin, ca. 0.2 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Environment

In primary montane rain-forest, 750-2300 m. Fl. Oct.-Jan., fr. March-Aug.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Turpinia montana world distribution map, present in China, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Ghana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Iceland, Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Turpinia montana threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:785552-1
WFO ID wfo-0001226731
COL ID 7CZ7C
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Synonyms

Sambucus integerrima Turpinia parviflora Fagara montana Cassine zollingeri Turpinia glaberrima Zanthoxylum montanum Turpinia montana Maurocenia zollingeri Turpinia parva Turpinia gracilis Evodia parviflora Fagara serrulata Zanthoxylum serrulatum Sambucus cochinchinensis Turpinia glaberrima var. stenophylla Turpinia montana var. montana Turpinia montana var. glaberrima Turpinia montana var. stenophylla
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