Melia azedarach

楝

Melia azedarach Linn.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

Linn. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 384. (Sp. Pl.)

中

楝、苦苓、苦楝、楝樹、森樹、苦楝樹、紫花樹
台

Khó lêng
客

Fú lien2 hu2
原

Baaran (Atayal)、Bannaru (Atayal)、Kariran (Atayal)、Bagasu (Paiwan)、Hamotto (Paiwan)
英

China berry、China berry tree、Bead tree、Persian lilac、China tree
日

たいわんせんだん

Yang. 1982. A list of plants in Taiwan. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Liu. 1961. Illustrations of native and introduced ligneous plants of Taiwan. (Ill. Nat. Intr. Lign. Pl. Taiwan)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou. 1994. Trees of Taiwan revised. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)
Hui-Chun Hsu. 2007. Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Beipu township, Hsinchu county. Master thesis. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. (Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Beipu township, Hsinchu county.)
Ciou & Pong. 2008. Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 188. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan)
Lu, Ou & Lu. 2001. Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 5: 13. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan)

tree

A medium-sized tree; buds and young shoots brownish or white scurfy.
Leaves bipinnate, occasionally tripinnate, 20–40 cm long, pinnae 3–4 pairs, the rachis pubescent when young; leaflets 3–4 jugate; opposite or subopposite, chartaceous, ovate-oblong, 2–6 cm long, 1–2.5 cm broad, acuminate at apex, acute to rounded, not or slightly inequilateral at base, toothed or lobed, pubescent when young, the lateral veins about 10 on each side of the midrib, indistinct; petiolules 3–5 mm long, the terminal one much longer, about 1 cm long.
Panicles axillary, 10–20 cm long, the rachis and branches pubescent; flowers lilac, pedicels slender, 2–3 mm long; bracts ovate, 1 mm long, pubescent; calyx 5–6-parted, the segments ovate-oblong, densely villose without; petals 5, spathulate-oblong, obtuse-rounded at apex, about 8 mm long, 2 mm broad, pubescent without, spreading; staminal tube dark purple, a little shorter than the petals, glabrous, toothed at top, the anthers 10, sessile; ovary ovate, glabrous, about 1.5 mm long, 5–6-celled, the style glabrous, 4 mm long, the stigma capitate.
Fruit ovoid. 1.2 cm long, 9 mm across, fleshy with a hard stone.