粘木 nian mu

Emmenanthus chinensis Hooker & Arnott; Ixonanthes chinensis (Hooker & Arnott) Champion; I. cochinchinensis Pierre.

Trees to 30 m tall, buttressed at base. Stipules to 1 mm. Petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or slightly obovate, 4-16 × 2-10 cm, papery to leathery, secondary veins 5-17 on each side of midvein, base narrowly cuneate, margin entire, apex slightly obtuse. Inflorescences lax; peduncle (3.5-)5-8(-16) cm; bracts ca. 1 mm. Flowers 2-7 mm in diam. Pedicel 5-8 mm. Sepals ovate to ovate-oblong, 4-5 × 3-4 mm. Petals white, ovate-elliptic to broadly ovate, 4-5.5 × 3-4 mm. Stamens 10; filament ultimately up to 2 cm. Disk ca. 1 cm in diam. Ovary globose, ca. 3 × 2 mm, glabrous; styles to 2 cm. Capsule long ellipsoid, 2-3.5 × 1-1.7 cm, with persistent enlarged sepals and petals. Seeds oblong, 1.8-2 × 0.4-0.9 cm; wing 1-1.5 cm, membranous. Fl. Aug-Jun, fr. Jun-Oct.

Dense or sparse forests, mountain valleys, hills, riversides, trailsides, sandy areas; near sea level to 1000 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guang-xi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Yunnan [NE India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].