Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Eriobotrya
11. Eriobotrya deflexa (Hemsley) Nakai; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 30: 18. 1916.
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Photinia deflexa Hemsley; Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 9: 153. 1895; Eriobotrya buisanensis (Hayata) Makino & Nemoto; E. deflexa f. buisanensis (Hayata) Nakai; E. deflexa var. buisanensis (Hayata) Hayata; E. deflexa f. koshunensis (Kanehira & Sasaki) H. L. Li; E. deflexa var. koshunensis Kanehira & Sasaki; P. buisanensis Hayata.
Trees 5–12 m tall. Branchlets brownish gray; stout; densely brown tomentose when young; glabrescent. Leaves in clusters at apices of branchlets; stipules caducous; not seen; petiole 2–4 cm; glabrous; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate to obovate-oblong; (9–)10–19 x (1.5–)3–7 cm; leathery; adaxially lustrous; midvein prominent on both surfaces; lateral veins 10–12 pairs; both surfaces initially shortly tomentose; soon glabrescent; base cuneate; margin remotely irregularly incurved-crenate; revolute; apex shortly caudate or acuminate. Panicle 6–8 cm in diam.; many flowered; peduncle densely brown tomentose; bracts and bractlets lanceolate; 4–6 mm; abaxially tomentose. Pedicel 6–12 mm; densely brown tomentose. Flowers 1.5–1.8 cm in diam. Hypanthium cupular; abaxially brown tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate; slightly shorter than hypanthium; ca. 1.2 cm; abaxially brown tomentose; adaxially glabrous; apex obtuse or acute. Petals white; orbicular or obovate; ca. 8 x 7 mm. Stamens 20. Ovary glabrous; 3–5-loculed; with 2 ovules per locule; styles 3–5; connate at base; pubescent. Pome yellowish red; subglobose; 1.2–2 cm in diam.; glabrous; fruiting pedicel 7–12 mm; brown pubescent; sepals reflexed. Fl. May–Jun; fr. Jun–Aug.
Slopes; broad-leaved valley forests; 1000--2100 m. Guangdong; Hainan; Taiwan [S Vietnam].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Eriobotrya
11. Eriobotrya deflexa (Hemsley) Nakai; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 30: 18. 1916.
???? tai wan pi ba
Photinia deflexa Hemsley; Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 9: 153. 1895; Eriobotrya buisanensis (Hayata) Makino & Nemoto; E. deflexa f. buisanensis (Hayata) Nakai; E. deflexa var. buisanensis (Hayata) Hayata; E. deflexa f. koshunensis (Kanehira & Sasaki) H. L. Li; E. deflexa var. koshunensis Kanehira & Sasaki; P. buisanensis Hayata.
Trees 5–12 m tall. Branchlets brownish gray; stout; densely brown tomentose when young; glabrescent. Leaves in clusters at apices of branchlets; stipules caducous; not seen; petiole 2–4 cm; glabrous; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate to obovate-oblong; (9–)10–19 x (1.5–)3–7 cm; leathery; adaxially lustrous; midvein prominent on both surfaces; lateral veins 10–12 pairs; both surfaces initially shortly tomentose; soon glabrescent; base cuneate; margin remotely irregularly incurved-crenate; revolute; apex shortly caudate or acuminate. Panicle 6–8 cm in diam.; many flowered; peduncle densely brown tomentose; bracts and bractlets lanceolate; 4–6 mm; abaxially tomentose. Pedicel 6–12 mm; densely brown tomentose. Flowers 1.5–1.8 cm in diam. Hypanthium cupular; abaxially brown tomentose. Sepals triangular-ovate; slightly shorter than hypanthium; ca. 1.2 cm; abaxially brown tomentose; adaxially glabrous; apex obtuse or acute. Petals white; orbicular or obovate; ca. 8 x 7 mm. Stamens 20. Ovary glabrous; 3–5-loculed; with 2 ovules per locule; styles 3–5; connate at base; pubescent. Pome yellowish red; subglobose; 1.2–2 cm in diam.; glabrous; fruiting pedicel 7–12 mm; brown pubescent; sepals reflexed. Fl. May–Jun; fr. Jun–Aug.
Slopes; broad-leaved valley forests; 1000--2100 m. Guangdong; Hainan; Taiwan [S Vietnam].