Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Alseodaphne
4. Alseodaphne hainanensis Merrill; Lingnan Sci. J. 13: 57. 1934.
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Trees; up to 25 m tall; to 30 cm d.b.h.; all except young parts glabrous. Branchlets and young branchlets terete; smallest ones ca. 2 mm in diam.; all gray; with few suborbicular leaf scars; young ones with many clustered scale scars at base. Terminal buds small; gray- or rusty sericeous. Leaves many; clustered at apex of branchlet; petiole robust; 1-1.5 cm; concave-convex; leaf blade green-white and opaque abaxially; shiny adaxially; narrowly elliptic; 6-10(-16) x 1.5-3.2(-4.2) cm; leathery; shallowly foveolate adaxially; lateral veins 12-17 pairs; slender; slightly conspicuous on both surfaces; arcuately interconnected at ends; base acute; margin revolute; apex rounded. Panicle axillary on upper part of branchlet; 3.5-8(-12) cm; glabrous; black when dry; few branched; peduncle elongate; as pedicel subfleshy. Pedicel slender; 3-8 mm; dilated in fruit; not verrucose. Perianth lobes slightly fleshy; oblong; ca. 4 x 2 mm; slightly acute at apex; glabrous outside; white sericeous inside. Fertile stamens ca. 2.5 mm; pilose; filaments of 3rd whorl each with 2 stalked glands; anthers ellipsoid-square; obtuse at apex; as long as filaments; 4-celled; cells introrse in 1st and 2nd whorls; upper 2 cells lateral and lower 2 cells extrorse in 3rd whorl. Staminodes conspicuous; sagittate; stalked. Ovary ovoid; style slender; stigma inconspicuous. Fruit green when fresh but black when dry; globose or ovoid; 1.2-2 cm; wrinkled. Fl. Jul; fr. Oct-Feb of next year.
Valleys; forests; 1400-1700 m. Hainan [N Vietnam].
The wood is finely grained; heavy; and durable.