Vasilis Teodoridis:
Hamamelidaceae | Sycopsis
1. Sycopsis sinensis Oliver; Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 20: t. 1931. 1890.
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Distylium formosanum Kanehira; Sycopsis formosana (Kanehira) Kanehira & Hatusima; S. sinensis var. integrifolia Diels.
Trees to 14 m tall; young branches lepidote; older growth drying dark brown; glabrous. Petiole 0.8–1.8 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate or lanceolate; 5–12 x 2.5–4 cm; discolorous; abaxially sparsely stellately pubescent; glabrescent; adaxially shiny; stellately pubescent when young; soon glabrous; base cuneate or obtuse; margin entire or distally serrulate; apex acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 on each side. Inflorescences 7- or 8-flowered. Floral bracts brown; ovate-rounded; 6–8 mm; stellately pubescent. Male flowers: floral cup short; reduced pistil pubescent. Bisexual flowers: floral cup 1.7–2 mm; pubescent. Sepals ovate. Filaments slender; 1–1.2 cm; anthers red; 1.8–2 mm; apex acute. Ovary pubescent; styles 5 mm; coiled backwards. Capsules 8–10 mm; villous; dehiscing irregularly; persistent floral cup 3–4 mm; persistent styles 1–2 mm. Seeds 5–7 mm. Fl. Apr–Jun; fr. Jul–Sep.
Mountain thickets; evergreen forests; 1300--1500 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang.Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Hamamelidaceae | Sycopsis
1. Sycopsis sinensis Oliver; Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 20: t. 1931. 1890.
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Distylium formosanum Kanehira; Sycopsis formosana (Kanehira) Kanehira & Hatusima; S. sinensis var. integrifolia Diels.
Trees to 14 m tall; young branches lepidote; older growth drying dark brown; glabrous. Petiole 0.8–1.8 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate or lanceolate; 5–12 x 2.5–4 cm; discolorous; abaxially sparsely stellately pubescent; glabrescent; adaxially shiny; stellately pubescent when young; soon glabrous; base cuneate or obtuse; margin entire or distally serrulate; apex acuminate; lateral veins 6 or 7 on each side. Inflorescences 7- or 8-flowered. Floral bracts brown; ovate-rounded; 6–8 mm; stellately pubescent. Male flowers: floral cup short; reduced pistil pubescent. Bisexual flowers: floral cup 1.7–2 mm; pubescent. Sepals ovate. Filaments slender; 1–1.2 cm; anthers red; 1.8–2 mm; apex acute. Ovary pubescent; styles 5 mm; coiled backwards. Capsules 8–10 mm; villous; dehiscing irregularly; persistent floral cup 3–4 mm; persistent styles 1–2 mm. Seeds 5–7 mm. Fl. Apr–Jun; fr. Jul–Sep.
Mountain thickets; evergreen forests; 1300--1500 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang.Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangxi; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang.
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Styracaceae | Styrax
25. Styrax suberifolius Hooker & Arnott; Bot. Beechey Voy. 196. 1841.
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Trees 4--20 m tall. Branchlets red-brown to gray-brown stellate tomentose. Leaves alternate; petiole 1--1.5(--2) cm; nearly 4-angled; leaf blade elliptic; oblong; or elliptic-lanceolate; 5--15(--18) X 2--5(--8) cm; leathery; abaxially densely brownish stellate tomentose; adaxially subglabrous or primary vein sparsely stellate pubescent; base cuneate; margin subentire; apex acuminate and sometimes slightly curved; secondary veins 5--12 pairs; tertiary veins subparallel. Inflorescences terminal or axillary; racemes or panicles; many-flowered; 6--12 cm. Pedicel 1--3 mm. Flowers 1--1.5 cm. Calyx 3--5(--7) X 2--4(--7) mm; densely gray-yellow tomentose mixed with few stellate hairs; teeth ± rudimentary; deltoid to undulate. Corolla tube ca. 3 mm; lobes 4; occasionally 5; lanceolate to oblong; 8--10 X 2--3 mm. Stamens 8--10; shorter than corolla; filaments expanded; stellate pubescent on free part. Fruit ovoid-globose; 1--1.8 cm in diam.; densely gray to brown stellate tomentose; 3-valvate dehiscent with persistent calyx enclosing to middle. Seeds brown; glabrous. Fl. Mar-May; fr. Aug-Nov.
100--3000 m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Taiwan; Yunnan; Zhejiang [Myanmar; Vietnam].