黄皮 Clausena lansium

  • Scientific Name: Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeels
  • Ref: Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 168:31. 1909
  • Synonyms: Sonneratia punctata J.F.Gmel.; Aulacia punctata Raeusch.; Clausena wampi (Blanco) Oliv.; Cookia punctata Sonn.; Cookia wampi Blanco; Quinaria lansium Lour.
  • English Common Name: wampee, wampi
  • Chinese Common Name: 黄皮 huángpí
  • Japanese Common Name: ワンピ [黄皮] wanpi
  • Family: Rutaceae
  • Genus: Clausena
  • Distribution: Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, S Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, SE Yunnan [Vietnam].
  • Photo: 06/21/2009, South China Botanical Garden, Guangdong
Trees to 12 m tall. Leaves 5-11-foliolate; petiolules 4-8 mm; leaflet blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, 6-14 × 3-6 cm, midvein often pubescent, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin repand to crenulate. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate. Flowers globose in bud. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, ca. 1 mm. Petals oblong, ca. 5 mm. Stamens 10; filaments linear, basal portion slightly expanded. Disk short. Ovary hirsute. Fruit pale yellow, globose, ellipsoid, or broadly ovoid, 1.5-3 × 1-2 cm, 1-4-seeded. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jul-Aug (fl. and fr. ca. 1 month earlier in Hainan). 2n = 18. (Flora of China)

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