Hong Kong Herbarium

Rare and Precious Plants of Hong Kong (Online Version)

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(59) 廣西新木薑子
Neolitsea kwangsiensis Liou
樟科 (Lauraceae)
英文名 (English name): Guangxi Neolitsea

Status in China: Vulnerable (VU)

Description: Evergreen small trees. Young shoots, petioles and nerves red. Leaves alternate or whorled at apex of branch; leaf blade elliptic to broad-obovate elliptic, 11-26 cm long and 5-12 cm wide, apex acute, glaucous abaxially, triplinerved; lateral veins arcuately linked at end; transverse veins raised on both surfaces. Plant dioecious. Flowers unisexual; umbels 5 to many flowered, aggregated at leaf axils or lateral on branches. Perianth lobes 4, ovate or ovate-orbicular, 3.5 mm long. Male flower: fertile stamens 6, in 3 whorls, the third whorl stamens with 2 glands at base; female flower with 6 staminodes. Drupe globose, 15-16 mm in diam.

Distribution: Sunset Peak, Shek Uk Shan, Tai Mo Shan. Guangdong, Guangxi (Lingyun County).

Habitat and Ecology: In secondary forest of mountains. Flowering: Mar.-Apr.; fruiting: Aug.-Oct.

This species is relatively rare in Hong Kong, but the localities of its occurrence are within Country Parks under protection.

References:

楊銜晉、黃普華,1982:中國植物誌31:370。科學出版社,北京。


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