Litchi chinensis

荔枝

cultivated

Litchi chinensis Sonn.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

Sonn., Voyage aux Indes Orientales 5: 230. pl. 129. 1782. (Voy. Ind. Orient.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Suzuki, Short. Fl. Formos. 130. 1936.

異名

無

各語言俗名

中

火山. 離枝. 荔錦. 丹荔. 荔支. 麗枝.
英

Lichee. Litchi. Litchi nut. Lychee.
日

れいし.
台

Nāi chi.

參考文獻

Lu, Ou & Lu, Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 5: 20. 2001. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan)
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)

特徵描述

生活型

tree

形態特徵

An evergreen tree, ferrugineous tomentose on the young part.
Leaves even-pinnate, alternate or nearly opposite; leaflets coriaceous, pinkish on young ones, lanceolate, oblong or obovate, acute at apex, obtuse or cuneate at base, entire, 7–15 cm long, 3–6 cm broad, glabrous on both surfaces; the lateral veins 8–10-paired.
Inflorescence paniculate, terminal, pubescent. Flowers polygamous, small, 3 mm across; petals absent, calyx small, valvate, oblanceolate-oblong, 4–5-lobed; stamens 7, filament pubescent, 2-glands on the base in the male flower; in the female flower the calyx campanulate, 4–5-valvate; ovary superior, 2–4-celled with one ovule in each cell, styles 2.
ruit drupe, spherical or ovoid, 3–4 mm across, red-purple, pericarp emargence. Seed dark brownish, glabrous, covered with a mucilaginous aril.

分布

台灣 : Cultivated in Taiwan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Kuanyinshan, Kuo 4732. TAICHUNG: Wufoun, Lai s. n. 1967. TAINAN: Talae, Wang s. n. 1968 . PINGTUNG: Liowguen, Chang s. n. 1981. HUALIEN: Suzuki s. n. 1933.