台湾白桐树 tai wan bai tong shu

Claoxylon kotoense Hayata.

Shrubs, 4-5 m tall, dioecious. Branchlets pilose. Stipules minute; petiole 3.5-6 cm, with 2 glands; leaf blade oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 15-20 × 5-8 cm, thickly papery, base cuneate, crenate apex acuminate, glabrous. Male inflorescences 6-7 cm. Male flowers 1-3 per bract; pedicel ca. 3 mm; sepals 3(or 4), ca. 2.5 mm; stamens ca. 30; interstaminal glands ca. 0.5 mm. Female inflorescences 1.5-3 cm; bracts ovate, minute. Female flowers 1(or 2) per bract; pedicel 1-2 mm; sepals 3, subtriangular, ca. 1 mm; disk glands 3, rounded; ovary glabrous; styles 3, ca. 2 mm, base connate, papillose. Capsule 3-lobed, ca. 7 mm in diam. Seeds globose, ca. 3 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Dec.

Hills, seasides, thickets; below 100 m. Taiwan [Malaysia (Sabah), Philippines].