Vasilis Teodoridis:
Rosaceae | Photinia
32. Photinia benthamiana Hance; Ann. Sci. Nat.; Bot.; sér. 5. 5: 213. 1866.
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Shrubs or small trees; deciduous; 3–10 m tall. Branchlets dark reddish brown or purplish brown when young; grayish black when old; initially densely gray villous; glabrous when old; with elliptic lenticels; buds narrowly ovoid; 3–5 x 2–3 mm; apex acute; scales several; brown; villous. Petiole 3–10 mm; gray villous; leaf blade obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; 5–11 x 2–5 cm; papery; veins 5–8 pairs; both surfaces sparsely gray villous when young; later glabrous or only with few long hairs along veins abaxially; base attenuate or broadly cuneate; margin sparsely serrate; apex acute or obtuse. Compound corymbs terminal; 4–6(–7) x 5–7 cm; numerous flowered; peduncles and pedicels gray villous; bracts subulate; 2–4 mm; villous. Pedicel 3–5 mm. Flowers 7–8 mm in diam. Hypanthium cupular; 3–4 mm; abaxially villous. Sepals triangular; 1–1.5 mm. Petals white; obovate or orbicular; 3–4 mm; adaxially glabrous or puberulous; apex obtuse or emarginate. Stamens 20; nearly as long as or slightly shorter than petals. Styles 2 or 3; somewhat not exceeding stamens; glabrous; connate basally. Fruit ovoid or subglobose; 4–6 x 3–5 mm; sparsely yellow pubescent. Fl. Mar–May; fr. Jul–Aug.
Slopes; mountain valleys; forests; thickets; roadsides; river banks; 200--2500 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Laos; Thailand; Vietnam].