Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Neolitsea
22. Neolitsea pulchella (Meisner) Merrill; Philipp. J. Sci. C 13: 137. 1918.
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Litsea pulchella Meisner in A. Candolle; Prodr. 15(1): 224. 1864; L. zeylanica Nees & T. Nees var. chinensis Bentham.
Small trees; 6-8 m tall. Young branchlets and petioles covered with brown pubescence and becoming glabrate. Leaves alternate or clustered toward apex of branchlet; subverticillate; petiole 6-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic; 4-6 x 2-3 cm; thickly leathery; glaucous; gray villous; and becoming glabrous or glabrate abaxially; shiny and glabrous when young adaxially; except pubescent along midrib; triplinerved; lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs; lowermost pair arising 4-6 mm from base; other pairs arising from above middle of blade. Umbels axillary; solitary; or 2- or 3-fascicled; male umbel 4- or 5-flowered. Perianth segments 4; elliptic. Male flowers: fertile stamens 6; filaments below middle villous; of 3rd whorls each with 2 stipitate rounded small glands at base; rudimentary pistil lacking. Fruit globose; 4-6 mm in diam.; seated on shallowly discoid perianth tube; fruiting pedicel 5-6 mm. Fl. Oct-Nov; fr. Aug-Sep of next year.
? Mixed forests; valleys. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan.