Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Neolitsea
14. Neolitsea howii C. K. Allen; Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 25: 424. 1938.
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Trees or shrubs; up to 9 m tall. Young branchlets and petioles appressed gray pubescent. Leaves alternate or clustered at apex of branchlet; subverticillate; petiole 1-1.5 cm; stout; wrinkled; leaf blade obovate or elliptic; 9.5-18 x 3.5-7 cm; glaucous; gray-white pubescent; and becoming glabrous abaxially; glabrous and shiny adaxially; triplinerved; lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs; lowermost pair arising 0.5-1 cm from base; with 6-8 fine veinlets at one side near margin; base acute; apex acuminate. Fruiting inflorescence umbellate; axillary; with 7 fruits; sessile. Fruit ellipsoid or nearly globose; ca. 12 x 9 mm; glabrous; seated on shallowly discoid perianth tube; fruiting pedicel 4-5 mm; stout; pubescent. Fr. Aug.
? Mixed forests on mountains. Hainan.