Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Lindera
13. Lindera robusta (C. K. Allen) H. P. Tsui; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16(4): 64. 1978.
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Lindera kwangtungensis (H. Liu) C. K. Allen f. robusta C. K. Allen; J. Arnold Arbor. 22: 3. 1941.
Evergreen trees; 5-10 m tall. Bark gray-brown; with longitudinal dehiscences. Branchlets black-brown; striate and corky-lenticellate; young branchlets stout; usually more than 3 mm in diam. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-2 cm; glabrous; leaf blade pale green abaxially; green adaxially; brown-gray when dry; oblong; 8-16 x 2.5-2.6 cm; leathery; glabrous on both surfaces; pinninerved; lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs; distinctly convex abaxially and slightly convex adaxially; midrib distinctly convex abaxially; slightly concave adaxially; reticulate veins rather thick; sometimes indistinct abaxially; base cuneate; revolute on margin; apex acuminate. Umbels 2-5; inserted at apex of axillary short branchlets; peduncles 1-1.2 cm; glabrous; involucral bracts 4; 7-9-flowered inside. Pedicels ca. 2 mm; densely white or brownish pubescent. Male flowers: tepals equal in length; oblong; ca. 3.5 x 1 mm; apex rounded; white pubescent on both surfaces; rather dense outside; densely hyaline glandular punctate; anthers of stamens triangular; filaments pubescent; ca. 3 mm in 1st and 3rd whorls; ca. 4 mm in 2nd whorl; 2-glandular below middle; glands elliptic; shortly stipitate; reduced pistil small. Female flowers: perianth tube ca. 1/2 length of tepals; tepals narrowly elliptic; apex acuminate; ca. 1.5 mm; ca. 0.6 mm wide in outer whorl and ca. 0.4 mm wide in inner whorl; reduced stamens ligulate; ca. 1.5 mm in 1st and 2nd whorls; 2-3 mm in 3rd whorl; 2-glandular at middle of filaments; glands elliptic; ca. 1.5 mm; ovary laxly pubescent; style ca. 4 mm; stigma with subglobose minute papillae. Fruits globose; ca. 6 mm in diam.
? Sparse forests on mountain slopes. Hainan.