Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Litsea
6. Litsea ichangensis Gamble in Sargent; Pl. Wilson. 2: 77. 1914.
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Deciduous shrubs or small trees; up to 8 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-15 mm; glabrous; leaf blade obovate or rotund; 2-5 x 2-3 cm; glaucous; barbate in axils of veins; and becoming glabrous abaxially; glabrous adaxially; sometimes glandular-domed in axils of veins abaxially; pinninerved; lateral veins 4-6 pairs; base cuneate; apex acute or rounded-obtuse. Umbels solitary or 2-fascicled; male umbel 9-flowered; peduncle ca. 5 mm; glabrous. Pedicel ca. 5 mm; sericeous-pubescent. Perianth segments 6; yellow; obovate or rotund; 4-nerved outside. Male flowers: fertile stamens 9; filaments glabrous; of 3rd whorls each with 2 yellow small glands at base; rudimentary pistil small; glabrous. Fruit subglobose; ca. 5 mm in diam.; black at maturity; fruiting pedicel 1-1.5 cm; glabrous; slightly thickened at apex. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Jul-Aug.
? Thickets; dense forests on mountain slopes; 300-2200 m. SW and W Hubei; W Hunan; E and NE Sichuan.