Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ulmaceae | Celtis
9. Celtis cerasifera C. K. Schneider in Sargent; Pl. Wilson. 3: 271. 1916.
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Celtis taiyuanensis E. W. Ma.
Trees; to 35 m tall; deciduous. Bark grayish brown. Branchlets green; glabrous; brown with age; with scattered lenticels. Winter buds brown to dark brown; 2-3 mm; glabrous; buds on two-year-old branchlets ca. 6 mm; apex acute. Petiole 5-10(-17) mm; adaxially with a narrow and sharply defined furrow; glabrous or furrow sparsely pubescent; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic; 5-15 x 2.5-7.5 cm; papery; glabrous or with hairs scattered along major veins and tufted in abaxial vein axils; base ± rounded and slightly to strongly oblique; margin sharply and evenly toothed almost to base; teeth 15-28 on each side and 1-2 mm; apex long acuminate to shortly caudate-acute; secondary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midvein. Infructescences solitary; unbranched; 2-4.5 mm; rather stout; glabrous or sparsely pubescent at base; ca. 4 x as long as subtending petiole. Drupes 1(-3) per infructescence; blackish blue when mature; globose; 1-1.3 cm in diam. Stone ± globose; ca. 9 mm in diam.; shallowly foveolate-reticulate; 4-ribbed. Fl. Apr; fr. Sep-Oct.
* Forests; among shrubs; slopes; valleys; 800-2400 m. Guangxi; Guizhou; N Hunan; S Shaanxi; Sichuan; SE Xizang; Yunnan; Zhejiang.