Vasilis Teodoridis:
Styracaceae | Styrax
28. Styrax confusus Hemsley; Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew. 1906: 162. 1906.
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Trees 2--8 m tall. Trunk to 12 cm d.b.h. Branchlets densely brownish stellate pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 1--3 mm; leaf blade narrowly oblong; obovate-elliptic; or oblong-elliptic; 4--14 X 2.5--7 cm; leathery to almost leathery; sparsely stellate pubescent but gradually glabrescent; base rounded to broadly cuneate; margin serrulate; apex acute to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 5--7 pairs; tertiary veins reticulate and conspicuously raised. Racemes terminal; 3--8-flowered; 4--10 cm. Pedicel 1--1.5 cm. Flowers 1.3--2.2 cm. Calyx 3--10 X 4--6 mm; densely yellowish to gray stellate tomentose and villose; teeth 5; deltoid. Corolla tube 3--4 mm; lobes lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate; 12--20 X 3--4 mm. Filaments slightly expanded; free parts basally densely white villose. Fruit subglobose to obovoid; 0.8--1.5 cm in diam.; densely yellowish stellate tomentose; exocarp 1--2 mm thick; rugose. Seeds brown; obovoid; smooth or deeply rugose. Fl. Apr-Oct.
* 100--1700 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Zhejiang