浙江安息香Styrax zhejiangensis

  • Scientific Name: Styrax zhejiangensis S. M. Hwang & L. L. Yu
  • Ref: Acta Bot. Austro-Sin. 1: 75. 1983.
  • Chinese Common Name: 浙江安息香 zhe jiang an xi xiang
  • Family: Styracaceae
  • Genus: Styrax
  • Distribution: Thickets, along stream banks; ca. 900 m. Zhejiang (Jiande Xian).
  • Type:Zhejiang (浙江):Jiande (建德), Longjiang (龙江) [泷江], 1958-06-27, Y.Y. Ho (贺贤育) 29344 (Lectotype: IBSC-0002732, designated by Y-Q Ruan et al. in PhytoKeys 133:111. 2019).
 Shrubs to 2 m tall. Branchlets subterete, brown to gray-brown, glabrous. Leaves alternate but 2 lowermost on branchlet subopposite; petiole very short; leaf blade broadly elliptic to ovate-oblong, 2.5--8 X 2--5 cm, papery, abaxially glabrous but veins sparsely stellate villose, adaxially glabrous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin denticulate to subentire, apex acute, secondary veins 6--8 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary, axillary, 1.8--2 X 1--1.2 cm, densely grayish stellate villose, apex shortly pointed. Seeds ovoid-ellipsoid, irregularly rugose, sparsely white stellate villose. Fr. Jun. (Flora of China)

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