Vasilis Teodoridis:
Sapotaceae | Sarcosperma
4. Sarcosperma laurinum (Bentham) J. D. Hooker in Bentham & J. D. Hooker; Gen. Pl. 2: 655. 1876.
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Reptonia laurina Bentham; Fl. Hongk. 208. 1861.
Trees 6--15(--26) m tall. Trunk 6--20 cm d.b.h.; conspicuously buttressed; bark grayish brown; thin; smooth. Branchlets angulate; glabrous. Leaves mostly alternate; some opposite; some whorled at end of branchlets; stipules subulate; 2--3 mm; petiole 1--2 cm; without appendage; leaf blade usually obovate to oblanceolate; rarely narrowly elliptic; 7--16(--19) X 3--6 cm; almost leathery; both surfaces glabrous; adaxially dark and shiny green; base cuneate; apex usually acute but sometimes obtuse to obtuse-acuminate; lateral veins 6--9 pairs. Racemes or panicles axillary; 2--13 cm. Flowers aromatic. Pedicels 1--5 mm; yellow brown tomentose. Sepals 2--3 mm; broadly ovate to subrounded; outside yellow brown tomentose; inside glabrous. Corolla green; becoming pale yellow; lobes broadly obovate to subrounded; 2--2.5 mm. Staminodes subulate; longer than stamens. Ovary ovoid; 1--1.5 mm; 1-locular; glabrous. Style thick; ca. 1 mm. Drupe green; becoming red and finally black; oblong to ellipsoid; 1.5--2.5 X 0.8--1 cm; base with recurved persistent calyx; pericarp very thin. Seed 1; ca. 1.7 X 0.8 cm. Fl. Aug-Sep; fr. Dec-Jan.
Forests in valleys or along streams; 400--500 m. Fujian; Guangxi; Hainan; Zhejiang [N Vietnam].
Source of timber.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Sapotaceae | Sarcosperma
4. Sarcosperma laurinum (Bentham) J. D. Hooker in Bentham & J. D. Hooker; Gen. Pl. 2: 655. 1876.
??? rou shi shu
Reptonia laurina Bentham; Fl. Hongk. 208. 1861.
Trees 6--15(--26) m tall. Trunk 6--20 cm d.b.h.; conspicuously buttressed; bark grayish brown; thin; smooth. Branchlets angulate; glabrous. Leaves mostly alternate; some opposite; some whorled at end of branchlets; stipules subulate; 2--3 mm; petiole 1--2 cm; without appendage; leaf blade usually obovate to oblanceolate; rarely narrowly elliptic; 7--16(--19) X 3--6 cm; almost leathery; both surfaces glabrous; adaxially dark and shiny green; base cuneate; apex usually acute but sometimes obtuse to obtuse-acuminate; lateral veins 6--9 pairs. Racemes or panicles axillary; 2--13 cm. Flowers aromatic. Pedicels 1--5 mm; yellow brown tomentose. Sepals 2--3 mm; broadly ovate to subrounded; outside yellow brown tomentose; inside glabrous. Corolla green; becoming pale yellow; lobes broadly obovate to subrounded; 2--2.5 mm. Staminodes subulate; longer than stamens. Ovary ovoid; 1--1.5 mm; 1-locular; glabrous. Style thick; ca. 1 mm. Drupe green; becoming red and finally black; oblong to ellipsoid; 1.5--2.5 X 0.8--1 cm; base with recurved persistent calyx; pericarp very thin. Seed 1; ca. 1.7 X 0.8 cm. Fl. Aug-Sep; fr. Dec-Jan.
Forests in valleys or along streams; 400--500 m. Fujian; Guangxi; Hainan; Zhejiang [N Vietnam].
Source of timber.