Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Beilschmiedia
27. Beilschmiedia glauca S. K. Lee & L. F. Lau; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 8: 193. 1963.
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Trees; up to 23 m tall; whole plant glabrous. Bark gray-brown; irregularly fissured. Branchlets black-brown or brown; shallowly striate. Terminal buds nearly 1 cm; slender; aristate; slightly curved. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.2-2.7 cm; leaf blade abaxially powdery green or powdery brown; adaxially green and shiny; ovate or ovate-lanceolate or broadly elliptic; 7-15 x 3.5-6.5 cm; papery or subleathery; midrib adaxially plane; lateral veins 6-8 pairs; slender; all elevated and reddish brown on both surfaces; veins densely reticulate; foveolate when dry; base subrotund; symmetric or asymmetric on sides; apex shortly acuminate; acuminate; or obtuse; always oblique. Panicles axillary or terminal; 2-10 cm; narrow or congested or ample and lax; few or several branched; few or many flowered; glabrous or sparsely pubescent on rachises. Flowers white. Perianth segments broadly ovate; glabrous outside; pubescent inside. Filaments of 3rd whorl each with 2 glands at base; hairy. Staminodes sagittate; hairy at base. Fruits ellipsoid; 2.5-3.5 x 1.5-2.3 cm; black and smooth when dry; obtuse at both ends; fruiting pedicels ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. Feb; fr. Aug-Dec.
? Mixed forests on mountain slopes; forests on limestone mountains; ca. 1300 m. Hainan; SE Yunnan.