Vasilis Teodoridis:
Orchidaceae | Liparis
19. Liparis nervosa (Thunberg) Lindley; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 26. 1830.
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Ophrys nervosa Thunberg in Murray; Syst. Veg.; ed. 14; 814. 1784; Bletia bicallosa D. Don; Epidendrum nervosum (Thunberg) Thunberg; Liparis bambusifolia Makino; L. bicallosa (D. Don) Schlechter; Malaxis nervosa (Thunberg) Swartz; Sturmia nervosa (Thunberg) H. G. Reichenbach.
Herbs; terrestrial. Stem cylindric; 2-8(-10) cm; 5-7(-10) mm in diam.; thick; fleshy; with many nodes; usually ± enclosed by sheaths; upper part sometimes naked. Leaves 3-6; petiole sheathlike; 2-3(-5) cm; amplexicaul; long; not articulate; blade ovate to ovate-elliptic; 5-11(-16) x 3-5(-8) cm; membranous or herbaceous; base contracted and decurrent into petiole; margin entire; apex subacuminate. Inflorescence subterminal; 10-20(-25) cm; rachis several to 10-flowered; sometimes with very narrow wing; floral bracts deltoid; 1(-2) mm. Flowers purple; pedicel and ovary 8-16 mm. Dorsal sepal linear or broadly linear; 8-10 x 1.5-2 mm; inconspicuously 3-veined; margin revolute; apex obtuse; lateral sepals narrowly ovate-oblong; slightly oblique; 6-7 x 3-3.5 mm; 3-veined; apex obtuse. Petals reflexed; filiform; 7-8 x ca. 0.5 mm; 1-veined; lip oblong-obovate; 6-6.5 x 4.5-5 mm; base narrowed and with 2 suboblong calli; apex truncate and emarginate. Column 4-5 mm; rather stout; upper part distinctly or indistinctly with narrow wings. Capsule obovate-oblong or narrowly elliptic; ca. 1.5 cm x 6 mm; fruiting pedicel 4-7 mm. Fl. Feb-Jul; fr. Oct. 2n = 36; 40; 42.
Forests; shaded places in grasslands or soil-covered rocks along streamsides; 1000-2100 m. N Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; S Hunan; Jiangxi; S Sichuan; Taiwan; SE Xizang; Yunnan; S Zhejiang [widespread in Old and New World tropics].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Orchidaceae | Liparis
19. Liparis nervosa (Thunberg) Lindley; Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 26. 1830.
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Ophrys nervosa Thunberg in Murray; Syst. Veg.; ed. 14; 814. 1784; Bletia bicallosa D. Don; Epidendrum nervosum (Thunberg) Thunberg; Liparis bambusifolia Makino; L. bicallosa (D. Don) Schlechter; Malaxis nervosa (Thunberg) Swartz; Sturmia nervosa (Thunberg) H. G. Reichenbach.
Herbs; terrestrial. Stem cylindric; 2-8(-10) cm; 5-7(-10) mm in diam.; thick; fleshy; with many nodes; usually ± enclosed by sheaths; upper part sometimes naked. Leaves 3-6; petiole sheathlike; 2-3(-5) cm; amplexicaul; long; not articulate; blade ovate to ovate-elliptic; 5-11(-16) x 3-5(-8) cm; membranous or herbaceous; base contracted and decurrent into petiole; margin entire; apex subacuminate. Inflorescence subterminal; 10-20(-25) cm; rachis several to 10-flowered; sometimes with very narrow wing; floral bracts deltoid; 1(-2) mm. Flowers purple; pedicel and ovary 8-16 mm. Dorsal sepal linear or broadly linear; 8-10 x 1.5-2 mm; inconspicuously 3-veined; margin revolute; apex obtuse; lateral sepals narrowly ovate-oblong; slightly oblique; 6-7 x 3-3.5 mm; 3-veined; apex obtuse. Petals reflexed; filiform; 7-8 x ca. 0.5 mm; 1-veined; lip oblong-obovate; 6-6.5 x 4.5-5 mm; base narrowed and with 2 suboblong calli; apex truncate and emarginate. Column 4-5 mm; rather stout; upper part distinctly or indistinctly with narrow wings. Capsule obovate-oblong or narrowly elliptic; ca. 1.5 cm x 6 mm; fruiting pedicel 4-7 mm. Fl. Feb-Jul; fr. Oct. 2n = 36; 40; 42.
Forests; shaded places in grasslands or soil-covered rocks along streamsides; 1000-2100 m. N Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; S Hunan; Jiangxi; S Sichuan; Taiwan; SE Xizang; Yunnan; S Zhejiang [widespread in Old and New World tropics].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Lindera
1. Lindera megaphylla Hemsley; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 26: 389. 1891.
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Actinodaphne crassa Handel-Mazzetti; Benzoin grandifolium Rehder; B. oldhamii (Hemsley) Rehder; B. pricei (Hayata) Kamikoti; B. touyunense (H. Léveillé) Rehder; B. touyunense f. megaphyllum (Hemsley) Rehder; B. touyunense f. trichocladum Rehder; Lindera megaphylla f. touyunensis (H. Léveillé) Rehder; L. megaphylla f. trichoclada (Rehder) W. C. Cheng; L. oldhamii Hemsley; L. pricei Hayata; Litsea touyunensis H. Léveillé.
Trees evergreen; 3-15(-25) m tall; more than 35 cm d.b.h. Bark gray-black. Branchlets terete; robust; purple-black; glabrous or pubescent; with subrounded and longitudinally dehiscent lenticels. Terminal bud ovate; ca. 1.5 cm; bud scales white puberulent outside. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-3 cm; glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade green and shiny abaxially; greenish white adaxially; oblanceolate to obovate-oblong; sometimes narrowly ovate; 10-23 cm; leathery; glabrous on both surfaces or laxly or densely pubescent abaxially; later glabrate; pinninerved; lateral veins 15-21 pairs; base attenuate; apex acute or acuminate. Umbel inserted in both sides of short branchlet; many flowered; with 16 male flowers and 12 female flowers; short branchlets axillary; ca. 3.5 mm; with terminal bud; peduncles of male inflorescence 1-1.5 cm and of female inflorescence ca. 6 mm; both densely yellow-brown or nearly ferruginous puberulent. Male flowers yellow-green; ca. 6 mm; pedicellate; tepals 6; elliptic; outer 3 ca. 4.5 x 2.8 mm; laxly yellow-brown puberulent on lower and abaxial parts; inner 3 rather short; filaments laxly pubescent; 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands funnelform; ca. 2 mm; stipitate; reduced pistil ca. 2.5 mm; glabrous; ovary ovate; style slender; stigma indistinct. Female flowers yellow-green; 1.5-3 mm; pedicellate; densely yellow-brown pubescent; tepals 6; linear-spatulate; ca. 2.5 x 1 mm; yellow-brown pubescent outside on lower part or along keel; reduced stamens 9; anthers linear or clavate; barbate at base; 2-glandular at middle of filament in 3rd whorl; glands funnelform; ovary ovate; ca. 1.5 mm; glabrous; style very slender; ca. 4.5 mm; stigma peltate; papillose. Fruit ellipsoid or ovate; ca. 1.8 x 1.3 cm; purple-black at maturity; glabrous; stipes ca. 1.5 cm; scabrous; persistent hypocarpium cup-shaped; ca. 8 mm x 1.5 cm; entire; slightly sinuous. Fl. Feb-Apr; fr. Sep-Dec.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests or thickets in wet places on mountain slopes or in valleys; 1600-2000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Yunnan.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Lindera
1. Lindera megaphylla Hemsley; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 26: 389. 1891.
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Actinodaphne crassa Handel-Mazzetti; Benzoin grandifolium Rehder; B. oldhamii (Hemsley) Rehder; B. pricei (Hayata) Kamikoti; B. touyunense (H. Léveillé) Rehder; B. touyunense f. megaphyllum (Hemsley) Rehder; B. touyunense f. trichocladum Rehder; Lindera megaphylla f. touyunensis (H. Léveillé) Rehder; L. megaphylla f. trichoclada (Rehder) W. C. Cheng; L. oldhamii Hemsley; L. pricei Hayata; Litsea touyunensis H. Léveillé.
Trees evergreen; 3-15(-25) m tall; more than 35 cm d.b.h. Bark gray-black. Branchlets terete; robust; purple-black; glabrous or pubescent; with subrounded and longitudinally dehiscent lenticels. Terminal bud ovate; ca. 1.5 cm; bud scales white puberulent outside. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-3 cm; glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade green and shiny abaxially; greenish white adaxially; oblanceolate to obovate-oblong; sometimes narrowly ovate; 10-23 cm; leathery; glabrous on both surfaces or laxly or densely pubescent abaxially; later glabrate; pinninerved; lateral veins 15-21 pairs; base attenuate; apex acute or acuminate. Umbel inserted in both sides of short branchlet; many flowered; with 16 male flowers and 12 female flowers; short branchlets axillary; ca. 3.5 mm; with terminal bud; peduncles of male inflorescence 1-1.5 cm and of female inflorescence ca. 6 mm; both densely yellow-brown or nearly ferruginous puberulent. Male flowers yellow-green; ca. 6 mm; pedicellate; tepals 6; elliptic; outer 3 ca. 4.5 x 2.8 mm; laxly yellow-brown puberulent on lower and abaxial parts; inner 3 rather short; filaments laxly pubescent; 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands funnelform; ca. 2 mm; stipitate; reduced pistil ca. 2.5 mm; glabrous; ovary ovate; style slender; stigma indistinct. Female flowers yellow-green; 1.5-3 mm; pedicellate; densely yellow-brown pubescent; tepals 6; linear-spatulate; ca. 2.5 x 1 mm; yellow-brown pubescent outside on lower part or along keel; reduced stamens 9; anthers linear or clavate; barbate at base; 2-glandular at middle of filament in 3rd whorl; glands funnelform; ovary ovate; ca. 1.5 mm; glabrous; style very slender; ca. 4.5 mm; stigma peltate; papillose. Fruit ellipsoid or ovate; ca. 1.8 x 1.3 cm; purple-black at maturity; glabrous; stipes ca. 1.5 cm; scabrous; persistent hypocarpium cup-shaped; ca. 8 mm x 1.5 cm; entire; slightly sinuous. Fl. Feb-Apr; fr. Sep-Dec.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests or thickets in wet places on mountain slopes or in valleys; 1600-2000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Yunnan.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Lindera
1. Lindera megaphylla Hemsley; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 26: 389. 1891.
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Actinodaphne crassa Handel-Mazzetti; Benzoin grandifolium Rehder; B. oldhamii (Hemsley) Rehder; B. pricei (Hayata) Kamikoti; B. touyunense (H. Léveillé) Rehder; B. touyunense f. megaphyllum (Hemsley) Rehder; B. touyunense f. trichocladum Rehder; Lindera megaphylla f. touyunensis (H. Léveillé) Rehder; L. megaphylla f. trichoclada (Rehder) W. C. Cheng; L. oldhamii Hemsley; L. pricei Hayata; Litsea touyunensis H. Léveillé.
Trees evergreen; 3-15(-25) m tall; more than 35 cm d.b.h. Bark gray-black. Branchlets terete; robust; purple-black; glabrous or pubescent; with subrounded and longitudinally dehiscent lenticels. Terminal bud ovate; ca. 1.5 cm; bud scales white puberulent outside. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-3 cm; glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade green and shiny abaxially; greenish white adaxially; oblanceolate to obovate-oblong; sometimes narrowly ovate; 10-23 cm; leathery; glabrous on both surfaces or laxly or densely pubescent abaxially; later glabrate; pinninerved; lateral veins 15-21 pairs; base attenuate; apex acute or acuminate. Umbel inserted in both sides of short branchlet; many flowered; with 16 male flowers and 12 female flowers; short branchlets axillary; ca. 3.5 mm; with terminal bud; peduncles of male inflorescence 1-1.5 cm and of female inflorescence ca. 6 mm; both densely yellow-brown or nearly ferruginous puberulent. Male flowers yellow-green; ca. 6 mm; pedicellate; tepals 6; elliptic; outer 3 ca. 4.5 x 2.8 mm; laxly yellow-brown puberulent on lower and abaxial parts; inner 3 rather short; filaments laxly pubescent; 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands funnelform; ca. 2 mm; stipitate; reduced pistil ca. 2.5 mm; glabrous; ovary ovate; style slender; stigma indistinct. Female flowers yellow-green; 1.5-3 mm; pedicellate; densely yellow-brown pubescent; tepals 6; linear-spatulate; ca. 2.5 x 1 mm; yellow-brown pubescent outside on lower part or along keel; reduced stamens 9; anthers linear or clavate; barbate at base; 2-glandular at middle of filament in 3rd whorl; glands funnelform; ovary ovate; ca. 1.5 mm; glabrous; style very slender; ca. 4.5 mm; stigma peltate; papillose. Fruit ellipsoid or ovate; ca. 1.8 x 1.3 cm; purple-black at maturity; glabrous; stipes ca. 1.5 cm; scabrous; persistent hypocarpium cup-shaped; ca. 8 mm x 1.5 cm; entire; slightly sinuous. Fl. Feb-Apr; fr. Sep-Dec.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests or thickets in wet places on mountain slopes or in valleys; 1600-2000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Gansu; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Yunnan.