Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Lindera
12. Lindera kwangtungensis (H. Liu) C. K. Allen; J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 2. 1941.
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Lindera meisneri King f. kwangtungensis H. Liu; Laurac. Chine & Indochine; 126. 1932.
Evergreen trees; 6-30 m tall. Bark grayish brown; with thick and longitudinal dehiscences. Branchlets green; black-brown when dry; many corky-lenticellate; current year branchlets angular. Leaves alternate; leaf blade pale green abaxially; green and shiny adaxially; elliptic-lanceolate; 6-12 x 1.5-3 cm; papery or sometimes nearly leathery; glabrous on both surfaces; pinninerved; lateral veins (4 or)5 or 6 pairs; indistinct; midrib yellowish green; convex abaxially; base cuneate; apex acuminate. Umbels 2 or 3; inserted at top of axillary branchlets; yielded before leaf; peduncles 10-20 mm; brown pubescent; involucral bracts 4; brown pubescent; 4-9-flowered inside. Pedicels 5-6 cm. Tepals oblong or ovate-oblong; ca. 4 mm; brown-yellow pubescent; rather dense outside; distinctly glandular punctate. Male flowers: stamens subequal; 4-5 mm; filaments pubescent; 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands reniform; stipitate; stipes ca. 1 mm; reduced pistil less than 1 mm; ovate; glabrous; style and stigma forming a small mucro. Female flowers: reduced stamens fasciated; laxly pubescent; ca. 3 mm in 1st whorl; ca. 3.5 mm in 2nd whorl; 2-3 mm in 3rd whorl; 2-glandular at upper part or near apex of filaments; glands narrowly elliptic; ca. 1 mm; pistil glabrous; ovary ovate; ca. 2 x 1.5 mm; style ca. 3 mm; stigma 2-lobed; papillose. Fruits globose; 5-6 mm in diam.; stipes 4-6 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr; fr. Aug-Sep.
? Forests on mountain slopes; below 1300 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Jiangxi; Sichuan.