Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Cinnamomum
27. Cinnamomum liangii C. K. Allen; J. Arnold Arbor. 20: 58. 1939.
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Trees; 4-20 m tall. Branches terete; striate; scented; branchlets glabrous; angled. Leaves opposite or subopposite; petiole dark brown; 0.5-0.7(-1) cm; concave-convex; glabrous; leaf blade opaque and greenish white abaxially; shiny and brownish green when dry adaxially; elliptic-lanceolate; 5.5-11 x 1.6-4(-5) cm; papery; glabrous on both surfaces; triplinerved; midrib and basal lateral veins elevated on both surfaces; basal lateral veins arising at or up to 5 mm above leaf base; arcuate; evanescent under leaf apex; transverse veins undulate and parallel; ± conspicuous on both surfaces; veinlets irregularly reticulate; ± conspicuous abaxially; base acute or subrounded; apex acuminate. Panicle axillary on upper part of branchlet; subracemose; 3-5.5 cm; peduncle short; 2-3(-10) mm; peduncle and rachis sparsely puberulent; bracts ovate; ca. 2 mm; obtuse or acute; densely puberulent outside but sparsely so inside; bracteoles lanceolate-subulate; ca. 1 mm; acute; curved; with same indumentum as bracts. Pedicels 3-5(-7) mm; slender; sparsely pubescent. Flowers yellowish; ca. 5.5 mm; scented. Perianth sparsely gray puberulent outside and inside; perianth tube obconical; ca. 1.5 mm; perianth lobes oblong; subequal; ca. 4 x 2 mm; acute. Fertile stamens 9; ca. 3.5 mm (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or ca. 3.8 mm (of 3rd whorl); filaments villous; those of 3rd whorl each with 2 shortly stalked cordate-reniform glands at middle; anthers of 1st and 2nd whorls oblong; a little shorter than filaments; but those of 3rd whorl ca. 1/2 as long as filaments; all 4-celled; cells introrse (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or extrorse (of 3rd whorl). Staminodes 3; triangular-cordate; ca. 0.8 mm; stalked; stalk ca. 1.2 mm; villous. Ovary ovoid; ca. 1.5 mm; glabrous; style slightly dilated; flexuous; ca. 1.5 mm; stigma discoid; irregularly lobed. Fruit ellipsoid; up to 1.3 x 0.7-0.8 cm; apiculate; glabrous; perianth cup in fruit ca. 3 mm; irregularly dentate. Fl. Feb-Mar; fr. May.
Valley thickets; evergreen broad-leaved forests. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan [N Vietnam].