Vasilis Teodoridis:
Lauraceae | Phoebe
31. Phoebe zhennan S. K. Lee & F. N. Wei; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(2): 61. 1979.
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Large trees; up to 30 m or more; trunk straight. Buds densely gray-yellowish appressed villous. Branchlets usually slender; somewhat angular or subterete; gray-yellowish or gray-brown villous or pubescent. Petiole 1-2.2 cm; hairy; leaf blade elliptic; rarely lanceolate or oblanceolate; 7-11(-13) x 2.5-4 cm; thinly leathery; abaxially pubescent and villous at veins; adaxially shiny and glabrous or pubescent along lower part of midrib; midrib abaxially conspicuously raised; adaxially impressed into canal; lateral veins 8-13 pairs; obliquely extended; abaxially distinct; anastomosing near margin and gradually disappearing; veinlets abaxially slightly distinct or invisible. Cymose panicles very patent; branched above middle of peduncle; (6-)7.5-12 cm; lowest ramifications usually 2.5-4 cm; slender; hairy; each cyme with 3-6 flowers. Flowers and pedicel 3-4 mm. Perianth lobes subequal; 3-3.5 x 2-2.5 mm; outer ones ovate; inner ones ovate-oblong; apex obtuse; gray-yellow inside. Filaments subequal in length; hairy; those of 3rd series with sessile glands at base. Staminodes triangular; stipitate; hairy. Ovary glabrous or upper part together with style sparsely pubescent; stigma dish-shaped. Fruit ellipsoid; 1.1-1.4 cm x 6-7 mm; fruiting pedicel somewhat thickened; persistent perianth lobes ovate; leathery; pubescent on both surfaces or puberulent outside; clasping fruit. Fl. Apr-May; fr. Sep-Oct.
? Wild trees usually in mixed broad-leaved forests; also cultivated; below 1500 m. NW Guizhou; W Hubei; Sichuan.