Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Machilus
37. Machilus obscurinervis S. K. Lee; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(2): 51. 1979.
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Persea obscurinervis (S. K. Lee) Kostermans.
Large trees; 30-40 m tall. Branchlets grayish; longitudinally striate; yellowish brown lenticellate; rough; 1-year-old branchlet somewhat compressed; ± angular; glabrous. Terminal buds small; subovoid; bud scales glabrous outside; margin ciliate. Leaves clustered at apex of branchlet; petiole 1-2.4 cm; leaf blade abaxially grayish green; elliptic; 6-10(-12.5) x 2.3-4 cm; thinly leathery; appressed puberulent; midrib elevated abaxially; slightly concave adaxially; lateral veins slender; 10-12 pairs; inconspicuous on both surfaces; veinlets densely reticulate; abaxially inconspicuous; adaxially visible; base cuneate; apex obtusely acute. Flowers not seen. Infructescences paniculate; at lower part of 1-year-old branchlet; 6-10.5 cm; peduncle reddish; compressed. Fruit globose; ca. 1 cm in diam.; persistent perianth lobes reflexed; oblong; ca. 5 mm; puberulent on both surfaces; apex acute; fruiting pedicel ca. 1 cm; red when fresh; puberulent; thickened to 2 mm in diam. Fr. Aug.
? Evergreen mixed broad-leaved forests; ca. 2000 m. SE Xizang.