Vasilis Teodoridis:
Burseraceae | Canarium
1. Canarium album (Loureiro) Raeuschel; Nomencl. Bot. 287. 1797.
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Pimela alba Loureiro; Fl. Cochinch. 2: 408. 1790.
Trees; 7-25(-35) m tall. Branchlets 5-6 mm in diam.; tomentose with yellowish brown hairs when young; glabrescent. Leaves stipulate; leaflets 3-6 pairs; blades lanceolate; elliptic; or ovate; 6-14 x 2-5.5 cm; glabrous or abaxially sparsely setose on veins; base rounded or obliquely cuneate; margin entire; apex acuminate with acumen up to ca. 2 cm; lateral veins 12-16 pairs. Inflorescences axillary; minutely tomentose or glabrescent. Male flowers numerous in cymose panicles 15-30 cm; female inflorescence racemose; with less than 8 flowers. Calyx 2.5-3 mm; 3-fid in male flowers; nearly truncate in female flowers. Stamens glabrous; filaments connate for more than 1/2 of length; disk globose or terete and slightly 6-lobed in male flowers; annular; thick and fleshy; with 3 shallowly sinuate teeth and adaxially somewhat pubescent in female flowers. Infructescences 1.5-15 cm; with 1-6 fruits; persistent calyx flat; ca. 5 mm in diam.; with recurved lobes. Drupe ovoid or spindle-shaped; 25-35 mm; yellow-green; glabrous; exocarp thick; wrinkled when dry; pyrene acuminate. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Oct-Dec.
Forests on slopes; valleys; also cultivated; 100-1300 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan [Vietnam].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Burseraceae | Canarium
1. Canarium album (Loureiro) Raeuschel; Nomencl. Bot. 287. 1797.
?? gan lan
Pimela alba Loureiro; Fl. Cochinch. 2: 408. 1790.
Trees; 7-25(-35) m tall. Branchlets 5-6 mm in diam.; tomentose with yellowish brown hairs when young; glabrescent. Leaves stipulate; leaflets 3-6 pairs; blades lanceolate; elliptic; or ovate; 6-14 x 2-5.5 cm; glabrous or abaxially sparsely setose on veins; base rounded or obliquely cuneate; margin entire; apex acuminate with acumen up to ca. 2 cm; lateral veins 12-16 pairs. Inflorescences axillary; minutely tomentose or glabrescent. Male flowers numerous in cymose panicles 15-30 cm; female inflorescence racemose; with less than 8 flowers. Calyx 2.5-3 mm; 3-fid in male flowers; nearly truncate in female flowers. Stamens glabrous; filaments connate for more than 1/2 of length; disk globose or terete and slightly 6-lobed in male flowers; annular; thick and fleshy; with 3 shallowly sinuate teeth and adaxially somewhat pubescent in female flowers. Infructescences 1.5-15 cm; with 1-6 fruits; persistent calyx flat; ca. 5 mm in diam.; with recurved lobes. Drupe ovoid or spindle-shaped; 25-35 mm; yellow-green; glabrous; exocarp thick; wrinkled when dry; pyrene acuminate. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Oct-Dec.
Forests on slopes; valleys; also cultivated; 100-1300 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan [Vietnam].