Vasilis Teodoridis:
Elaeocarpaceae | Sloanea
11. Sloanea sinensis (Hance) Hemsley; Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 27: sub t. 2628. 1900.
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Echinocarpus sinensis Hance; J. Bot. 22: 108. 1884; Castanopsis cavaleriei H. Léveillé; Sloanea chinensis Hu (1925); not Sloanea sinensis (Hance) Hemsley (1900); S. hongkongensis Hemsley; S. kweichowensis Hu; S. oligophlebia Chun & K. C. Ting; S. parvifolia Chun & F. C. How.
Trees to 20 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Petiole 1-4 cm; glabrous; leaf blade variable; usually oblong or narrowly obovate; rarely orbicular or lanceolate; 6-9(-12) x 3-5 cm; thinly leathery; glabrous; lateral veins 5-7 per side; base cuneate; or narrowed and obtuse-rounded; margin usually entire; rarely sparsely dentate along upper margin; apex acute. Flowers fascicled. Pedicel 3-6 cm; gray pubescent. Sepals 4; broadly ovate; 6-8 x 5-6 mm; both surfaces puberulent. Petals 4; white; 7-9 mm; both surfaces puberulent; 6- or 7-incised at apices. Stamens ca. 82; ca. as long as petals; anthers ca. 3 x as long as filaments; awned at apices. Ovary ovoid; 6-loculed; 4-5 mm; pubescent; style simple; 4-6 mm; puberulent in lower 1/2. Capsule variable in size; 2-5 cm in diam.; 3-7-valved; valves variable in size; 2-3.5 cm; 3-5 mm thick; prickles 1-1.5 cm; endocarp purple-red. Seeds black; shiny; 1-1.3 cm; aril yellow; ca. 5 mm. Fl. Jun-Oct; fr. May-Nov; most frequently in Aug-Oct.
Evergreen forests; often in valleys or near streams; 700-1000 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hunan; Jiangxi; Zhejiang [Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam].