毛八角枫(原变种) mao ba jiao feng (yuan bian zhong)

Alangium begoniifolium (Roxburgh) Baillon subsp. tomentosum (Blume) Palm; A. chinense (Loureiro) Harms var. tomentosum (Blume) Merrill; A. chungii H. L. Li; A. kurzii var. laxifolium (Y. C. Wu) W. P. Fang; A. kurzii var. umbellatum (Y. C. Yang) W. P. Fang; A. rotundifolium (Hasskarl) Bloembergen var. laxifolium Y. C. Wu; A. tomentosum (Blume) Koorders (1912), not Lamarck (1783); A. umbellatum Y. C. Yang; Dia cicarpium tomentosum Blume; Marlea tomentosa (Blume) Endlicher ex Hasskarl.

Trees or shrubs, to 28 m high. Petals yellow, dark yellow, orange, or brick-red.

Sparse forests; 600-1600 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].

"Alangium kurzii var. pachyphyllum" (W. P. Fang & H. Y. Su, J. Sichuan Univ., Nat. Sci. Ed. 1979(2): 96. 1979) belongs here but was not validly published under Art. 37.2 of the Vienna Code because two gatherings were indicated as types.