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5. Schima Reinwardt ex Blume, Catalogus. 80. 1823.
木荷属 mu he shu
Trees, evergreen. Branchlets with white lenticels; terminal buds sericeous. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade margin entire or serrate. Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary or rarely 3-5 in a short raceme. Pedicel ± slender, apically thickened and recurved; bracteoles usually 2(or more), apically on pedicel, caducous. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent, basally slightly connate. Petals 5, white, basally connate and adnate with distinct filaments. Stamens numerous; anther dorsifixed. Ovary densely tomentose, 5-loculed with 2 or 3 ovules per locule, placentation axile; style stout, glabrous; stigma capitate, 5-lobed. Capsule globose or depressed globose; pericarp woody, splitting for 1/2 length into 5 valves; columella persistent, stout, extending for 2/3 or more of locule length. Seeds small, reniform, flat, with a marginal membranous wing; endosperm thin; cotyledons leaflike.
About 20 species: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, NE India, Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam; 13 species (six endemic) in China.
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Leaf blade margin entire |
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Leaf blade margin variously crenulate, crenate, or serrate at least for part of length |
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Bracteoles 4 or 5, 1.2-1.6 cm. |
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5 S. multibracteata |
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Bracteoles 2, 0.5-0.8 cm |
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Pedicel 3-6 cm |
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Pedicel 1-2.5 cm |
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Current year branchlets velutinous; leaf blade abaxially glaucous and appressed pubescent along midvein; petioles and pedicels velutinous; sepals 10-12 mm, outside velutinous. |
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1 S. villosa |
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Current year branchlets sparsely pubescent; leaf blade abaxially glabrous and not glaucous; petioles and pedicels glabrous; sepals ca. 5 mm in diam., outside glabrescent. |
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2 S. noronhae |
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Sepals 4.5-5.5 × 5-6 mm; stamens ca. 1.5 cm; style ca. 1.5 cm. |
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3 S. brevipedicellata |
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Sepals 1.5-3 × 2-3.5 mm; stamens 0.8-1 cm; style ca. 0.7 cm |
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Current year branchlets and pedicels appressed silvery pubescent; leaf blade thinly oblong to lanceolate, abaxially glaucous, apex acuminate to long acuminate; sepals orbicular, 2-3 × 2-3 mm, outside glabrous except basally sericeous. |
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4 S. argentea |
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Current year branchlets yellowish pubescent and pedicels gray pubescent; leaf blade elliptic to broadly elliptic, abaxially pale green, apex bluntly acute; sepals lunate to semiorbicular, 1.5-2 × 3-3.5 mm, outside basally puberulent. |
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6 S. wallichii |
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Leaf blade margin entire on ± basal 1/2 and variously crenate, crenulate, or serrate only on ± apical 1/2 |
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Leaf margin variously crenate, crenulate, or serrate ± for entire length |
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Leaf blade 7-12 cm, secondary veins 6 or 7 on each side of midvein, margin apically undulate crenate. |
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8 S. crenata |
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Leaf blade 12-16 cm, secondary veins 9-12 on each side of midvein, margin apically sparsely serrate or sparsely obtusely serrate |
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Leaf blade thickly leathery, abaxially glabrous; petiole 2-4 cm; sepals ca. 6 mm. |
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9 S. remotiserrata |
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Leaf blade thinly leathery, abaxially sparsely prostrate pilose; petiole 1-1.5 cm; sepals 3.5-4 mm |
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12 S. sericans |
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Leaf blade secondary veins 7-9 on each side of midvein; flowers 4-8 in a raceme |
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Leaf blade secondary veins 10-14 on each side of midvein; flowers solitary |
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Leaf blade undulately crenate; sepals outside glabrous. |
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10 S. superba |
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Leaf blade margin crenulate; sepals outside pubescent. |
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13 S. parviflora |
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Terminal bud yellow sericeous; sepals outside glabrous. |
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7 S. sinensis |
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Terminal bud white sericeous; sepals outside gray velutinous. |
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11 S. khasiana |
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List of lower taxa
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