Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Phoebe
35. Phoebe sheareri (Hemsley) Gamble in Sargent; Pl. Wilson. 2: 72. 1914.
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Large to small trees; 5-15 m tall. Bark gray-white. Branchlets; petioles; and inflorescences densely yellowish brown or gray-blackish pubescent to tomentose. Petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade obovate; elliptic-obovate; broadly oblanceolate; or oblanceolate; 8-27 x 2.5-9 cm; leathery; abaxially pubescent to villous; adaxially glabrous or hairy along veins; midrib and lateral veins adaxially impressed; lateral veins 8-13 pairs; curved; anastomosing at margin; veinlets numerous; densely reticulate; base attenuate; apex acute-acuminate or acute-caudate-acuminate. Panicles 7-15(-18) cm; branched at top of peduncle. Flowers 4-5 mm. Perianth subequal; ovate; hairy on both surfaces. Filaments hairy; particularly in 3rd series; those of 3rd series with sessile glands at base. Staminodes hairy. Ovary globose; glabrous; stigma indistinct or dish-shaped. Fruit ovoid; ca. 1 cm x 5-6 mm; fruiting pedicel somewhat or conspicuously thickened; hairy; persistent perianth lobes hairy on both surfaces; loose. Seed with solitary embryo; symmetrical on both sides. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Sep-Oct.
Mixed broad-leaved forests; usually below 1000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Vietnam].