Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Cinnamomum
48. Cinnamomum austrosinense Hung T. Chang; Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni. 1959(1): 20. 1959.
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Cinnamomum cassia (Linnaeus) D. Don subsp. pseudomelastoma J. C. Liao et al.; C. pseudomelastoma (J. C. Liao et al.) J. C. Liao.
Trees; 5-8(-16) m tall; up to 40 cm d.b.h. Bark gray-brown. One-year-old branchlets dark brown; terete; ca. 3 mm wide; longitudinally striate; puberulent; current year branchlets ± depressed; slightly angled; longitudinally striate and sulcate; shortly gray-brown appressed puberulent. Terminal buds small; ovoid; 3-4 mm; bud scales compact; densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs. Leaves subopposite or alternate; petiole 1-1.5 mm; plano-convex; densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs; leaf blade greenish and opaque abaxially; green and opaque or slightly shiny adaxially; elliptic; old leaves on 1-year-old branchlets 14-16 x 6-7.5(-8) cm; new leaves on current year branchlets 6.5-8.5(-12) x 3-4(-5) cm; all thinly leathery or leathery; densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs abaxially; grayish brown puberulent when young but glabrate when mature adaxially; trinerved or triplinerved; midrib and basal lateral veins very elevated abaxially; slightly elevated adaxially; basal lateral veins arising at or up to 5 mm above leaf base; slightly arcuate-ascendant and evanescent below leaf apex; always with 8-10 additional veins outside; these veins ± conspicuous abaxially; inconspicuous adaxially; arcuately interconnected near leaf margin; transverse veins undulate; subparallel at a distance of 2-3 mm; elevated abaxially; inconspicuous adaxially; base obtuse; margin cartilaginous and involute; apex acute; acumen 5-10(-15) mm. Panicle axillary on current year branchlet; 9-13 x 5-7 cm; triplicate-branched; apex of branchlet generally bearing a 3-flowered cyme; peduncle (3-)6-7.5 cm; peduncle and rachis slightly depressed and densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs. Pedicels ca. 2 mm; densely grayish brown puberulent. Flowers yellow-green; ca. 4.5 mm. Perianth densely gray-brown puberulent outside and inside; perianth tube obconical; ca. 2 mm; perianth lobes ovate; ca. 2.5 mm; outer ones ca. 1.5 mm wide; inner ones narrower; all acute. Fertile stamens 9; filaments villous; those of 3rd whorl each with 2 sessile suborbicular glands; others glandless; anthers villous abaxially; 4-celled; cells introrse (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or extrorse (of 3rd whorl). Staminodes 3; triangular; ca. 1 mm; stalked; villous. Ovary globose; ca. 1 mm; glabrous; style ca. 1.5 mm; stigma discoid. Fruit ellipsoid; ca. 1 x 0.9 cm; perianth cup in fruit shallowly cupuliform; ca. 2.5 mm and up to 5 mm in diam.; shallowly dentate at top margin; teeth truncate. Fl. Jun-Aug; fr. Aug-Oct.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests; thickets on mountain slopes; along streams; 600-700 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; SE Guizhou; Jiangxi; Zhejiang.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Cinnamomum
48. Cinnamomum austrosinense Hung T. Chang; Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni. 1959(1): 20. 1959.
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Cinnamomum cassia (Linnaeus) D. Don subsp. pseudomelastoma J. C. Liao et al.; C. pseudomelastoma (J. C. Liao et al.) J. C. Liao.
Trees; 5-8(-16) m tall; up to 40 cm d.b.h. Bark gray-brown. One-year-old branchlets dark brown; terete; ca. 3 mm wide; longitudinally striate; puberulent; current year branchlets ± depressed; slightly angled; longitudinally striate and sulcate; shortly gray-brown appressed puberulent. Terminal buds small; ovoid; 3-4 mm; bud scales compact; densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs. Leaves subopposite or alternate; petiole 1-1.5 mm; plano-convex; densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs; leaf blade greenish and opaque abaxially; green and opaque or slightly shiny adaxially; elliptic; old leaves on 1-year-old branchlets 14-16 x 6-7.5(-8) cm; new leaves on current year branchlets 6.5-8.5(-12) x 3-4(-5) cm; all thinly leathery or leathery; densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs abaxially; grayish brown puberulent when young but glabrate when mature adaxially; trinerved or triplinerved; midrib and basal lateral veins very elevated abaxially; slightly elevated adaxially; basal lateral veins arising at or up to 5 mm above leaf base; slightly arcuate-ascendant and evanescent below leaf apex; always with 8-10 additional veins outside; these veins ± conspicuous abaxially; inconspicuous adaxially; arcuately interconnected near leaf margin; transverse veins undulate; subparallel at a distance of 2-3 mm; elevated abaxially; inconspicuous adaxially; base obtuse; margin cartilaginous and involute; apex acute; acumen 5-10(-15) mm. Panicle axillary on current year branchlet; 9-13 x 5-7 cm; triplicate-branched; apex of branchlet generally bearing a 3-flowered cyme; peduncle (3-)6-7.5 cm; peduncle and rachis slightly depressed and densely covered with gray-brown short and appressed puberulent hairs. Pedicels ca. 2 mm; densely grayish brown puberulent. Flowers yellow-green; ca. 4.5 mm. Perianth densely gray-brown puberulent outside and inside; perianth tube obconical; ca. 2 mm; perianth lobes ovate; ca. 2.5 mm; outer ones ca. 1.5 mm wide; inner ones narrower; all acute. Fertile stamens 9; filaments villous; those of 3rd whorl each with 2 sessile suborbicular glands; others glandless; anthers villous abaxially; 4-celled; cells introrse (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or extrorse (of 3rd whorl). Staminodes 3; triangular; ca. 1 mm; stalked; villous. Ovary globose; ca. 1 mm; glabrous; style ca. 1.5 mm; stigma discoid. Fruit ellipsoid; ca. 1 x 0.9 cm; perianth cup in fruit shallowly cupuliform; ca. 2.5 mm and up to 5 mm in diam.; shallowly dentate at top margin; teeth truncate. Fl. Jun-Aug; fr. Aug-Oct.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests; thickets on mountain slopes; along streams; 600-700 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; SE Guizhou; Jiangxi; Zhejiang.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Fagaceae | Castanopsis
13. Castanopsis tibetana Hance; J. Bot. 13: 367. 1875.
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Castanopsis chengfengensis Hu; Quercus franchetiana H. Léveillé ex A. Camus.
Trees. Young shoots black to black-brown when dry; glabrous. Petiole 1.5-3 cm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic; ovate; oblong; or obovate-elliptic; 15-30 x 5-10(-13) cm; leathery; dark purple-brown when young; abaxially thinly covered with reddish brown to yellowish brown; waxy scalelike trichomes; base rounded to shortly cuneate and symmetric or sometimes inaequilateral; margin serrate except basally entire; apex acuminate; mucronate; or caudate; midvein adaxially impressed; secondary veins 15-18 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescences 5-25 cm; rachis 4-6 mm thick. Cupule globose; 6-8 cm in diam.; splitting into 4(or 5) regular segments; wall 3-4 mm thick; bracts spinelike; entirely covering cupule; 1.5-2.5 cm; subglabrous to sparsely puberulent; base usually connate into bundles. Nut 1 per cupule; ± conical; 1.5-1.8 x 2-2.8 cm; hairy; scar covering ca. 1/4 of nut. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Aug-Oct of following year.
* Broad-leaved evergreen forests; below 1500 m. S Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; SW Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; SE Yunnan; S Zhejiang