Actinodaphne omeiensis

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BLE
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LEG
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ZONPALM
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ARBFERN
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D-HERB
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M-HERB
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AZONAL WOODY
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AZONAL NON-WOODY
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AQUATIC
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PROBLEMATIC TAXA
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Comments

Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Actinodaphne

6. Actinodaphne omeiensis (H. Liu) C. K. Allen; Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25: 411. 1938.

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Actinodaphne reticulata Meisner var. omeiensis H. Liu; Laurac. Chine & Indochine; 158. 1932.

Shrubs or small trees; 3-5 m tall. Young branchlets villous and becoming glabrous. Bud scales sometimes persistent; 11-22 x 6-10 mm; surrounding bases of branchlets. Leaves often 4-6-clustered at apex of branchlet; subverticillate; petiole 11-30 mm; glabrous; leaf blade glaucous abaxially; lanceolate to elliptic; 12-27 x 2.1-6 cm; pubescent soon becoming glabrous abaxially; glabrous adaxially; pinninerved; lateral veins 12-15 pairs; base cuneate; apex acuminate. Umbels solitary or 2 in leaf axils or lateral side of branchlet; sessile; 7- or 8-flowered. Pedicel ca. 5 mm. Perianth segments 6; pubescent outside. Male flowers: fertile stamens 9-12; filaments ca. 4 mm; of 3rd whorls each with 2 shortly stipitate glands at upper middle; rudimentary pistil small; ca. 2.2 mm. Fruit subglobose; ca. 2 cm in diam.; apex apiculate; seated on undulate-dentate; shallowly disciform perianth tube; fruiting pedicel slightly stout; pubescent. Fl. Feb-Mar; fr. Aug-Sep.

? Valleys; roadsides; thickets; mixed forests; 500-1700 m. Guizhou; Sichuan.