Vasilis Teodoridis:
| Lauraceae | Lindera
7. Lindera glauca (Siebold & Zuccarini) Blume; Mus. Bot. 1: 325. 1851.
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Benzoin glaucum Siebold & Zuccarini; Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(3): 205. 1846; B. glaucum var. kawakamii (Hayata) Sasaki; Lindera glauca var. kawakamii Hayata.
Deciduous shrubs or trees; up to 8 m tall. Bark smooth; gray or gray-white. Young branchlets white-yellow; brown pubescent; later glabrate. Winter buds (mixed bud) long corniform-conical; ca. 1.5 cm x 4 mm; bud scales red on exserted parts. Leaves alternate; leaf blade broadly elliptic; elliptic; obovate; or narrowly obovate; 4-9 x 2-4(-6) cm; papery; greenish and white pubescent abaxially; green adaxially; pinninerved; lateral veins (4 or)5 or 6 pairs. Umbels axillary; involucral bracts inserted in mixed bud; green; membranous; 3-8-flowered inside. Male flowers: pedicels ca. 1.2 cm; densely white pubescent; tepals yellow; elliptic; ca. 2.2 mm; nearly equal in size in 1st and 2nd whorls; pubescent on dorsal keels; stamens 9; equal in length; filaments glabrous; 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands broadly reniform; cornute; stipe base and filament base coadnate; sometimes a small gland at filament in 2nd whorl; reduced pistil small; elliptic; ca. 1 mm; mucronate at apex. Female flowers: pedicels 3-6 mm; black-brown at maturity; tepals yellow; elliptic or obovate; equal in length in outer and inner whorl; ca. 2 mm; laxly pubescent on dorsal keel of outer surface or rarely pubescent at base; reduced stamens ca. 1 mm; fasciated; 2-glandular at filament base in 3rd whorl; glands ca. 0.5 mm; irregularly reniform; stipitate; stipe and below middle of reduced stamens coadnate; ovary ellipsoid; ca. 1.5 mm; style ca. 0.3 mm; stigma disciform. Fruit stipes 1-1.5 cm. Fl. Mar-Apr; fr. Jul-Aug.
Forests; roadsides on mountain slopes; below 900 m. Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; SW Henan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; SW Shaanxi; E Shandong; Shanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Zhejiang [Japan; Korea; Myanmar; Vietnam].