Firmiana simplex

梧桐

Firmiana simplex (L.) W. F. Wight

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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分布位置

相關資訊

W. F. Wight. 1909. U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 142: 67. (U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull.)

Sterculia plantanifolia L.

Forbes & Hemsl. 1886. The journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 23: 90. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)

Yang. 1982. A list of plants in Taiwan. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Hsiao-Ting Wu. 2007. Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Dahu Township, Miaoli county. Master thesis. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. (Plant use knowledge of Hakka ethnobotany in Dahu Township, Miaoli county.)
Ciou & Pong. 2008. Illustrations of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan 208. (Illustration of Hakka ethnobotany of Taiwan)
Lu, Ou & Lu. 1999. Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 3: 139. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan)

tree

Deciduous tree, bark smooth, greenish, 5–30 m high, twigs glabrous.
Leaves in adult trees broadly ovate, with cordate base, acuminate, shallowly to medium 3–5(–7)-lobed, glabrous ornearly so, 9–23 cm by 10–23 cm; petiole 5.5–26.5 cm long.
Panicles crowded at apices of defoliate branchlets, 45–50 cm; axes of panicles, pedicels and outsides of calyx yellowish green, densely stellate-pubescent; calyx 11–12 mm long, inside glabrous, with a ring of long hairs at base, lobes recurved strongly; staminate flower: gynandrophore glabrous, at last exserted, ca. 8 mm long, anther head 3 mm in diam.; perfect flower: carpels densely stellate-pubescent; style 1–1.5 mm.
Follicles on long stalks, oblong, base acute, apex rounded emarginate, thin, coriaceous papery, conspicuously veined, 6–7 cm by 1–1.5 cm; seeds 2–3, dark brown, wrinkled, 6 mm in diam.