Buxus liukiuensis

琉球黃楊

endemic

Buxus liukiuensis Makino

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

Makino, The Botanical magazine, Tokyo 16: 179. 1902. (Bot. Mag. Tokyo)

Sasaki, Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 18: 179. 1928. (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formos.)

Buxus microphylla Sieb. & Zucc. var. sinica auct. non Rehd. & Wils.

Hayata, General Index to the Flora of Formosa 65. 1917. pro. parte. (Gen. Ind. Fl. Formos.)
Buxus intermedia Kanehira

Kanehira, Formosan trees : indigenous to the island (revised) 359. fig. 315. 1936. pro. parte. (Formos. Trees rev. ed.)
Buxus liukiuensis Makino var. longipedicellata Hatusima

Hatusima, Journal of the department of agriculture of the Kyushu imperial university 6(6): 293. 1942. (J. Dept. Agric. Kyushu Imp. Univ.)

shrub

A shrub; branchlets quadrangular, slightly pubescent.
Leaves ovate lanceolate to lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 3–3.5 cm long, 0.6–1.5 cm wide, emarginate to obtuse at the apex, acute to cuneate at the base; petioles about 1 mm long, sparsely pilose. Inflorescence a axillary raceme; rachis densely pilose.
Stami¬nate flowers 6–8 in inflorescence; sepals orbicular to ovate, convex, pubescent at dorsal side, 2–2.5 mm long; stamens about 4 mm long, the anthers about 1.2 mm long; rudimentary ovary with a style about 1 mm long. Pistillate flowers terminal in inflorescence; sepals ovate, convex, sparsely pilose at dorsal side, 2.5 3 mm long; stigma obcordate.