Cinnamomum osmophloeum

土肉桂

endemic

Cinnamomum osmophloeum Kanehira

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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分布位置

相關資訊

Kanehira, Formosan Trees 428. 1917. (Formos. Trees)

同發表文獻

無

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 Evergreen trees; bark and Leaves with cinnamon odor; branchlets glabrous.
Leaves opposite to alternate, coriaceous, ovate to ovate-oblong, acute to acuminate at apex, obtuse to sub-rounded at base, 8-12 cm long, 3-6 cm broad, glabrous and polished above, glaucous and glabrescent beneath, 3 main veins elevated on both sides, 2 main lateral veins reaching to upper 2/3-3/4 of midrib, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs in addition to 2 main lateral veins, indistinct above, slightly distinct beneath, veinlets reticulate, elevated on both sides; petioles ca. 1 cm long, glabrous.
Inflorescences cymes, axillary or terminal, few-flowered, 4-7 cm long, sparsely tomentose; pedicels slender, 8-16 mm long, slightly tomentose; tepals 6, oblong, 3 mm long, 2 mm broad, obtuse at apex, sparsely tomentose outside, hirsute inside; 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, filaments nearly glabrous, 3rd whorl glandular, glands on middle of filaments, thinly villous at base of filaments, 4th whorl staminodia, sagittate, sparsely villous on back, filaments villous; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous, 1 mm long, style 1.8 mm long, glabrous, stigma somewhat 3-lobed.
Drupe ellipsoidal, 1 cm long, 5 mm across.