Vasilis Teodoridis:
Sabiaceae | Meliosma
22. Meliosma rhoifolia Maximowicz; Mélanges Biol. Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg. 6: 262. 1868.
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Trees medium-sized; evergreen. Leaves odd pinnate; axis somewhat pilose abaxially; petiolules ca. 1 cm; leaflets 11-15; abaxially gray or pale green; adaxially dark green and nitid; narrowly ovate; ovate-lanceolate; or oblong-elliptic; (3-)5-15 x 2-3.5 cm; leathery; both surfaces glabrous or crinite at vein axils abaxially; lateral veins (6-)9-13 pairs; slightly ascending; anastomosing 2-5 mm from margin; base rounded or broadly cuneate; margin sparsely spinose-serrulate or entire; apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Panicle terminal or axillary on upper branches; ca. 25 x 20 cm; ferruginous pubescent; soon glabrescent; branched 3(or 4) times; axis triangular; lateral branches flat. Pedicel short. Sepals 5; ovate; ca. 1 mm; outer ones narrower; ciliate. Petals white: 3 outer ones flat-orbicular; ca. 2 x 2.2 mm; 2 inner ones ca. 1/2 as long as filaments; bifid; lobes fringed. Fertile stamens ca. 1.5 mm. Disk shallowly cup-shaped; 5-toothed. Pistil ca. 1.7 mm; ovary pubescent; style slightly longer than ovary. Drupe subglobose; 4-6 mm in diam.; endocarp convex; with scattered netlike strips; midrib slightly prominent. Fl. May-Jun; fr. Aug-Oct.
Evergreen broad-leaved forests; below 1800 m. Fujian; N Guangdong; NE Guangxi; E Guizhou; S and W Hunan; E Jiangxi; C and N Taiwan; SW Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].
22b. Meliosma rhoifolia var. barbulata (Cufodontis) Y. W. Law; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 20: 431. 1982.
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Meliosma rhoifolia subsp. barbulata Cufodontis; Oesterr. Bot. Z. 88: 254. 1939; M. pinnata (Roxburgh) Maximowicz subsp. barbulata (Cufodontis) Beusekom ex Welzen.
Leaflet blade abaxially pale; lateral veins 6-9 pairs; axils yellowish crinite.
? Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 400-1100 m. Fujian; N Guangdong; NE Guangxi; E Guizhou; S and W Hunan; E Jiangxi; SW Zhejiang.
Welzen (Thai Forest Bull.; Bot. 32: 168-169. 2004) treated this taxon as Meliosma pinnata [subsp. barbulata] var. barbulata.