Vasilis Teodoridis:
Ulmaceae | Celtis
8. Celtis sinensis Persoon; Syn. Pl. 1: 292. 1805.
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Celtis bodinieri H. Léveillé; C. bungeana var. pubipedicella G. H. Wang; C. cercidifolia C. K. Schneider; C. hunanensis Handel-Mazzetti; C. labilis C. K. Schneider; C. nervosa Hemsley; C. tetrandra Roxburgh subsp. sinensis (Persoon) Y. C. Tang.
Trees; to 20 m tall; deciduous. Bark gray. Branchlets brown; brown pubescent; sometimes glabrescent late in season. Winter buds dark brown; 1-3 mm; glabrous or inconspicuously puberulent. Stipules linear to lanceolate; 3-5 mm; pubescent; fugacious. Petiole brown; 3-10 mm; pubescent; adaxially with a broad and shallow furrow; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic; 3-10 x 3.5-6 cm; thickly papery; abaxially usually inconspicuously yellowish brown puberulent when young; abaxially with hairs scattered on major veins and sometimes tufted in vein axils with age; base rounded; obtuse; or obliquely truncate; ± symmetric to moderately oblique; margin subentire to crenate on apical half; teeth 0-16 on each side; apex acute to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midvein. Flowers fascicled in leaf axils and stem bases. Style branches linear; undivided. Infructescences unbranched; 1(-3) per leaf axil; rather stout; pubescent at least proximally; 4-10 mm; fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 x as long as subtending petiole. Drupe ± globose; 5-7(-8) mm in diam. Stone white; ± globose; reticulately foveolate; ribbed. Fl. Mar-Apr; fr. Sep-Oct.
Roadsides; slopes; 100-1500 m. Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guizhou; Henan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; NE Shandong; Sichuan; Taiwan; Zhejiang [Japan].