Vasilis Teodoridis:
Pittosporaceae | Pittosporum
1. Pittosporum crispulum Gagnepain; Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 55: 546. 1908.
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Pittosporum lignilobum Hu & F. T. Wang.
Shrubs to 3 m tall. Young branchlets red-brown after drying; glabrous; previous year’s branchlets not lenticellate. Leaves clustered at branchlet apex; biennial; petiole 1–1.5 cm; leaf blade pale green abaxially; dark green and slightly shiny adaxially; dull green after drying; oblanceolate or lanceolate; 8–18 x 3–5 cm; thinly leathery; glabrous; lateral veins 13–20-paired; base cuneate; margin slightly rugose or sinuolate; apex acuminate. Inflorescences 2–4; clustered in leaf axils at branchlet apex; umbellate; 2–5-flowered; pedicels 1–2 cm; glabrous. Sepals slightly connate at base; triangular-ovate; ca. 3 mm; glabrous; margin ciliate. Petals ca. 1.5 x 0.2–0.25 cm. Stamens ca. 1 cm; filament 5–7 mm; anther ca. 2 mm. Pistil 8–10 mm; ovary 2–3 mm; pubescent; wall ca. 0.5 mm thick; placentas 3–5; parietal; ovules 10–15 per placenta in 4 rows; style 2–2.5 mm. Capsule ellipsoid or pear-shaped; 2.5–3 cm; dehiscing by 3–5 valves; pericarp ca. 2.5 mm thick; woody; pubescent abaxially; pedicel 1–2.5 cm; stipe 2–4 mm. Seeds 45–50 per valve in 2–4 rows; 2.5–3 mm; funicle 1–1.5 mm. Fl. Feb–May; fr. Jun–Oct.
Damp places in forests; thickets; 500--1800 m. NW Guizhou (Chishui Xian); Hubei; Sichuan; Yunnan.
This species is used medicinally to treat nephritis and stop vomiting.