Sassafras randaiense

台灣檫樹

endemic

Sassafras randaiense (Hayata) Rehder

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

Rehder, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 1: 244. 1920. (J. Arnold Arbor.)

同發表文獻

Lindera randaiensis Hayata

Hayata, Materials for a flora of Formosa 257. 1911. (Mat. Fl. Formos.)
Yushunia randaiensis (Hayata) Kamikoti

Kamikoti, Annual report of the Taihoku botanic garden, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial Univeristy , Formosa, Japan 3: 78. 1933. (Ann. Rep. Taihoku Bot. Gard.)
Pseudosassafras laxiflora (Hemsl.) Nakai var. randaiensis (Hayata) Nakai

Nakai, Journal of Japanese Botany 16: 126. 1940. (J. Jpn. Bot.)

Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou, Trees of Taiwan revised . 1994. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)
Yang, A list of plants in Taiwan . 1982. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Liu, Illustrations of native and introduced ligneous plants of Taiwan . 1961. (Ill. Nat. Intr. Lign. Pl. Taiwan)

tree

Medium sized deciduous trees; bark fissured; branchlets glabrous.
Leaves alternate, rhomboid-ovate, 10-15 cm long, 5-6 cm broad, glabrous above, glaucescent beneath, thick papery, acute at apex, acute or obtuse at base, entire to 2-3-lobed, lateral veins 7-9 pairs; veinlets reticulate; petioles 4 cm long, glabrous.
flowers polygamous, subterminal, panicles, 3 cm long; involucral bracts 5-6, elliptic, 1.2 cm long, pubescent outside; staminate flowers with tepals 6, glabrous outside; fertile stamens 9, anthers introrse, 2(3)-celled, filaments flattened, elongate, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, 3rd whorl with 2 stalked glands, 4th whorl staminodes, sagittate; reduced ovary ovoid, 1 mm long, style 1 mm long.
Fruit globose, 6-7 mm across, attached on the thickened pedicel; pedicels 2.5-3 cm long.