Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lardizabalaceae | Decaisnea
1. Decaisnea insignis (Griffith) J. D. Hooker & Thomson; Proc. Linn. Soc. London. 2: 349. 1855.
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Slackia insignis Griffith; Itin. Pl. Khasyah Mts. 2: 187. no. 977. 1848; Decaisnea fargesii Franchet.
Shrubs ca. 5 m tall. Branches robust and brittle; yellow when old; pith broad; lenticels orbicular to elliptic. Winter buds ovoid; apex acuminate; outer scales verrucose. Petiole 10--20 cm; leaf blade pinnately compound; 30--80 cm; leaflets 13--25; ovate to ovate-oblong; 6--14 x 3--7 cm; membranous; abaxially glaucous and pulverulent-puberulous but soon glabrescent; adaxially glabrous; base rounded to broadly cuneate; apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate. Racemes 25--30(--40) cm. Pedicel 0.5--2 cm; bracteoles narrowly linear; 6--8 mm. Sepals ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; striate; adpressed crisp; dusty puberulous or glabrous; apex long acuminate. Male flowers: outer 3 sepals 1.7--2(--3) cm; inner 3 sepals slightly shorter. Stamens 8--10 mm; filaments 3--4.5 mm; connate into a slender tube; anthers free; ca. 3.5 mm; connective apical appendage broad; flattened; hornlike; 2--2.5 mm. Pistillodes 1/2 as or rarely as long as filament tube. Female flowers: staminode filaments ca. 1.5 mm; connate into a ring; anthers free; 1.8--2 mm; connective apical appendage hornlike; 1--1.8 mm. Carpels conical; 5--7 mm. Stigma horseshoe-shaped; oblique. Fruit bluish black; pendulous; cylindric; 5--10 cm; ca. 2 cm in diam.; verruculose; apex truncate but abaxial suture protruded into a conical umbo; surface with or without annular; depressed; and transverse traces. Seeds black to brown; obovoid to oblong; ca. 1 cm. Fl. Apr--Jun; fr. Jul--Aug.
Mixed forests; scrub on mountain slopes; wet area in ravines; 900--3600 m. S Anhui; S Gansu; E Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; S Shaanxi; Sichuan; SE Xizang; Yunnan; E Zhejiang [Bhutan; NE India; Myanmar; Nepal; Sikkim].