毛山小橘 mao shan xiao ju

Glycosmis puberula Lindley var. craibii (Tanaka) B. C. Stone.

Trees to 5 m tall. Leaves (1-)3- or 5-foliolate; leaflet blades oblong, lanceolate, or ovate, 5-10 × 2-3 cm, papery or rigidly so, base attenuate to cuneate, margin entire, apex acuminate to mucronate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, less than 3 cm or rarely ca. 4 cm. Sepals broadly ovate to ovate, less than 1 mm or ca. 1 mm. Petals ca. 3 mm. Filaments linear or widest in ± their basal half. Ovary terete in bud, becoming broadly conic, gourd-shaped, or ovoid at anthesis, slightly pubescent or glabrous. Fruit reddish to orange, subglobose, 0.8-1.4 cm in diam., 1- or 2-seeded. Fl. and fr. year-round.

Hillside forests, woods, and thickets. Hainan, S Yunnan [N and NE Thailand, Vietnam].

Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 137: 18. 1985) reduced Glycosmis craibii to a variety of G. puberula Lindley.

Lower Taxa

• Glycosmis craibii var. craibii
• Glycosmis craibii var. glabra (Craib) Tanaka