Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Litsea
23. Litsea hupehana Hemsley; J. Linn. Soc.; Bot. 26: 382. 1891.
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Evergreen trees or small trees; up to 10 m tall; ca. 20 cm d.b.h. Young branchlets gray pubescent and becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 10-18 mm; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate to elliptic; 10-13 x 2-3.5 cm; glaucous and along midrib gray-white villous abaxially; midrib near base pubescent adaxially; pinninerved; lateral veins 10-19 pairs; prominent on both surfaces; base rotund or cuneate; apex acuminate or acute. Umbels solitary or in cluster of 2; axillary; male umbel 4- or 5-flowered; peduncle ca. 2 mm; sericeous-pubescent. Pedicel 3-4 mm; gray sericeous-pubescent. Perianth segments 6; ovate. Male flowers: fertile stamens 9; filaments gray villous; of 3rd whorls each with 2 sessile peltate glands at base. Fruit subglobose; 7-8 mm in diam.; seated on flat perianth tube; perianth segments persistent; straight and regular; fruiting pedicel 3-4 mm; stout. Fl. Aug-Sep; fr. May-Jun.
? Broad-leaved forests on mountain slopes; 800-1400 m. W Hubei; E Sichuan