Vasilis Teodoridis:
Euphorbiaceae | Endospermum
1. Endospermum chinense Bentham; Fl. Hongk. 304. 1861.
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Trees 6-35 m tall; bark gray-brown; young branches; inflorescences; and fruits densely gray-yellow stellate-puberulent; branchlets stout; gray-brown; glabrescent; leaf scars prominent; gray-white. Stipules triangular-ovate; 3-4 mm; hairy; petiole 4-9 cm; leaf blade elliptic; ovate; broadly ovate; or rotund; 8-20 x 4-14 cm; thinly leathery; both surfaces subglabrous or abaxially only sparsely stellate-hairy; base broadly cuneate to truncate or shallowly cordate; basal glands 2; globose; margins entire; apex acute to obtuse; lateral veins 5-7. Inflorescences axillary; male 10-20 cm; female 6-10 cm; bracts ovate; 1-2 mm. Male flowers: calyx cupular; with 4 or 5 shallow crenulations; stamens 5-12; in 2 or 3 series; inserted in elevated receptacle; filaments ca. 1 mm. Female flowers: calyx cupular; ca. 2 mm; undulately 3-5-lobed; hairy; persistent; disk annular; 2-4-serrate-lobed; ovary subglobose; tomentulose; 2- or 3-locular; styles very short; stigmatiform; confluent into a disk. Fruits subglobose; ca. 1 cm in diam. Seeds ellipsoid; ca. 7 mm. Fl. May-Aug; fr. Aug-Nov.
Evergreen forests; below 800 m. S Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; S Yunnan [India; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam].