Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Cinnamomum
49. Cinnamomum subavenium Miquel; Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 902. 1858.
?? xiang gui
Cinnamomum albiflorum Nees var. kwangtungense H. Liu; C. bartheifolium Hayata; C. chingii F. P. Metcalf; C. lioui C. K. Allen; C. longicarpum Kanehira; C. randaiense Hayata; C. validinerve Hance var. poilanei H. Liu.
Trees up to 20 m tall and 50 cm d.b.h. Bark gray; smooth. Branchlets slender; densely covered with yellow appressed sericeous-pubescent hairs. Leaves on young branchlets subopposite; those on old branchlets alternate; petiole 5-15 mm; densely covered with appressed yellow sericeous-pubescent hairs; leaf blade yellow-green and opaque abaxially; dark green and shiny adaxially; elliptic or ovate-elliptic to lanceolate; 4-13.5 x 2-6 cm; leathery; densely appressed yellow sericeous-pubescent but sparsely so when mature abaxially; appressed yellow sericeous-pubescent when young but glabrate to glabrous when mature adaxially; trinerved or triplinerved; midrib and basal lateral veins conspicuously elevated abaxially; impressed adaxially; basal lateral veins arising at or up to 4 mm above leaf base; oblique and extending to leaf apex; axils of basal lateral veins sometimes inconspicuously saccate abaxially and slightly bullate adaxially; transverse veins and veinlets inconspicuous on both surfaces; base cuneate to rounded; apex acuminate or acute. Pedicels 2-3 mm; covered with same hairs as petiole. Flowers yellowish; 3-4 mm. Perianth densely pubescent outside and inside; perianth tube obconical; short; ca. 1 mm; perianth lobes 6; outer ones narrower; oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate; ca. 3 x 1.5 mm; inner ones ovate-oblong; ca. 3 x 1.7 mm. Fertile stamens 9; ca. 2.4 mm (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or ca. 2.7 mm (of 3rd whorl); filaments villous; those of 3rd whorl each with 2 orbicular reniform glands; anthers villous abaxially; 4-celled; cells introrse (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or extrorse (of 3rd whorl). Staminodes 3; ca. 1.2 mm; villous; stalked. Ovary globose; ca. 1 mm in diam.; glabrous; style ca. 2.5 mm; slightly curved; stigma dilated; discoid. Fruit ellipsoid; ca. 7 x 5 mm; blue-black when mature; perianth cup in fruit cupuliform; entire and up to 5 mm wide at apex. Fl. Jun-Jul; fr. Aug-Oct.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes or in valleys; 400-1100(-2500) m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; N Thailand; Vietnam].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
fern Polypodiaceae
Vasilis Teodoridis:
fern Polypodiaceae
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Cinnamomum
49. Cinnamomum subavenium Miquel; Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 902. 1858.
?? xiang gui
Cinnamomum albiflorum Nees var. kwangtungense H. Liu; C. bartheifolium Hayata; C. chingii F. P. Metcalf; C. lioui C. K. Allen; C. longicarpum Kanehira; C. randaiense Hayata; C. validinerve Hance var. poilanei H. Liu.
Trees up to 20 m tall and 50 cm d.b.h. Bark gray; smooth. Branchlets slender; densely covered with yellow appressed sericeous-pubescent hairs. Leaves on young branchlets subopposite; those on old branchlets alternate; petiole 5-15 mm; densely covered with appressed yellow sericeous-pubescent hairs; leaf blade yellow-green and opaque abaxially; dark green and shiny adaxially; elliptic or ovate-elliptic to lanceolate; 4-13.5 x 2-6 cm; leathery; densely appressed yellow sericeous-pubescent but sparsely so when mature abaxially; appressed yellow sericeous-pubescent when young but glabrate to glabrous when mature adaxially; trinerved or triplinerved; midrib and basal lateral veins conspicuously elevated abaxially; impressed adaxially; basal lateral veins arising at or up to 4 mm above leaf base; oblique and extending to leaf apex; axils of basal lateral veins sometimes inconspicuously saccate abaxially and slightly bullate adaxially; transverse veins and veinlets inconspicuous on both surfaces; base cuneate to rounded; apex acuminate or acute. Pedicels 2-3 mm; covered with same hairs as petiole. Flowers yellowish; 3-4 mm. Perianth densely pubescent outside and inside; perianth tube obconical; short; ca. 1 mm; perianth lobes 6; outer ones narrower; oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate; ca. 3 x 1.5 mm; inner ones ovate-oblong; ca. 3 x 1.7 mm. Fertile stamens 9; ca. 2.4 mm (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or ca. 2.7 mm (of 3rd whorl); filaments villous; those of 3rd whorl each with 2 orbicular reniform glands; anthers villous abaxially; 4-celled; cells introrse (of 1st and 2nd whorls) or extrorse (of 3rd whorl). Staminodes 3; ca. 1.2 mm; villous; stalked. Ovary globose; ca. 1 mm in diam.; glabrous; style ca. 2.5 mm; slightly curved; stigma dilated; discoid. Fruit ellipsoid; ca. 7 x 5 mm; blue-black when mature; perianth cup in fruit cupuliform; entire and up to 5 mm wide at apex. Fl. Jun-Jul; fr. Aug-Oct.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes or in valleys; 400-1100(-2500) m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Cambodia; India; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; N Thailand; Vietnam].