Vitex canescens Kurz

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Vitex

Characteristics

Trees 3-15(-20) m tall; bark black-brown. Branchlets densely gray-yellow pubescent. Leaves 3-5-foliolate; petiole (3.5-)7-10 cm; petiolules 0.5-3 cm; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, 6-18 X 2.5-9 cm, papery, abaxially densely softly pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, and glandular, adaxially pubescent, base cuneate to subrounded and sometimes oblique, margin entire or obscurely undulate, apeX acuminate to acute. Thyrses 10-30 cm; peduncle densely gray-yellow pubescent; bracts deciduous. Calyx minutely 5-dentate, outside densely pubescent and glandular, inside pubescent. Corolla yellowish, outside densely pubescent and glandular, pilose at insertion of stamens. Stamens exserted. Ovary apically glandular. Style glabrous. Drupes yellow, becoming black, globose, shiny, smooth.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 3.0 - 15.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Uses material medicinal
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Distribution

Vitex canescens world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Vitex canescens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:865635-1
WFO ID wfo-0000332996
COL ID 5BL25
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Synonyms

Vitex canescens Vitex kweichowensis