Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Litsea
14. Litsea veitchiana Gamble in Sargent; Pl. Wilson. 2: 76. 1914.
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Deciduous shrubs or small trees; up to 4 m tall. Young branchlets yellow-white long sericeous and becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-1.2 cm; densely hairy like young branchlets and becoming glabrous; leaf blade obovate or obovate-oblong; 4-15 x 2.5-5.5 cm; densely hairy like young branchlets on both surfaces when young; becoming sparsely long sericeous abaxially; glabrous or only midrib hairy adaxially; pinninerved; lateral veins 6-9 pairs; base cuneate or broadly cuneate; apex acute or obtuse. Umbels solitary at apex of 1-year-old branchlets; 10-13-flowered; flowering before leaves or with leaves. Male flowers: pedicel 5-7 mm; perianth segments 6; elliptic or rotund; 3-nerved and glandular; fertile stamens 9; filaments pubescent at base; of 3rd whorls each with 2 large glands at base; rudimentary pistil ovoid. Fruit globose; ca. 5 mm in diam.; young fruit glabrous or appressed puberulent; black at maturity; fruiting pedicel 1.5-2 cm; sparsely long hairy. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Aug-Sep.
? Roadsides or thickets on mountain slopes; 400-3800 m. Guizhou; Hubei; Sichuan; NW Yunnan.