Month: January 2013

Species: Corchorus aestuans English Name: Mock Jute Chinese Name: 甜麻 Family: Tiliaceae Description: Herbs annual, to 1 m tall. Stem red-brown, slightly yellowish puberulent; branches slender. Petiole 0.9-1.6 cm, with yellowish, long, rigid hairs; leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate, 4.5-6.5 × 3-4 cm, sparsely pilose on both surfaces, glabrescent, basal veins 5-7, lateral veins 3-6 pairs, base rounded,…

Species: Elaeocarpus sylvestris English Name: Woodland Elaeocarpus Chinese Name: 山杜英 Family: Elaeocarpaceae Description: Trees to 15 m tall. Branchlets slender, sparsely pale pilose. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, sparsely pubescent at first, glabrescent; leaf blade black-brown when dry, obovate or oblanceolate, 4-12 × 2-7 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins usually 4 or 5 per side, prominent abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially,…

Species: Elaeocarpus hainanensis English Name: Hainan Elaeocarpus Chinese Name: 水石榕 Family: Elaeocarpaceae Description: Shrubs or small trees, to 5 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or nearly so. Leaves clustered at twig apices; petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly oblong, (4-)7-15(-18) × 1.5-3(-3.5) cm, papery, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous or slightly pubescent on midvein only, lateral…

Species: Elaeocarpus chinensis English Name: Chinese Elaeocarpus Chinese Name: 中華杜英 Family: Elaeocarpaceae Description: Trees evergreen, 3-7 m tall. Branchlets puberulent, glabrous when old. Petiole 1.5-2 cm, slender, minutely pubescent when young; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5-8 × 2-3 cm, papery, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, abaxially black glandular punctate, lateral veins 4-6 per side, slightly raised abaxially, veinlets…

Species: Elaeocarpus apiculatus English Name: Apiculate Elaeocarpus Chinese Name: 尖葉杜英 Family: Elaeocarpaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Hypericum monogynum English Name: Chinese St. Johnswort Chinese Name: 金絲桃 Family: Guttiferae Description: Shrubs, 0.5-1.3 m tall, bushy or usually with branches lax, spreading. Stems 2(-4)-lined and ancipitous when young, soon terete; internodes 1-5 cm, shorter than leaves. Leaves with petiole 1.5-2 mm; blade oblong to elliptic, 2.5-5 × 1.2-2.3 cm, thickly papery, abaxially paler but not glaucous; laminar…

Species: Garcinia subelliptica English Name: Common Garcinia Chinese Name: 菲島福木 Family: Guttiferae Description: Trees to 2 m tall or more. Twigs rigid, robust, 4-6-angled. Petiole 0.6-1.5 cm, robust; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green, adaxially dark green and shiny, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, rarely orbicular or lanceolate, 7-14(-20) × 3-6(-7) cm, thickly leathery, midvein raised abaxially; secondary veins 12-18 pairs, slender,…

Species: Garcinia oblongifolia English Name: Lingnan Garcinia Chinese Name: 嶺南山竹子 Family: Guttiferae Description: Trees or shrubs, 5-15 m tall, to 30 cm in diam. Bark dark gray. Branchlets usually with interrupted rings. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade oblong, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 5-10 × 2-3.5 cm, subleathery, midvein slightly raised adaxially, secondary veins 10-18 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate, base…

Species: Garcinia multiflora English Name: Many-flowered Garcinia Chinese Name: 多花山竹子 Family: Guttiferae Description: Trees, rarely shrubs, (3-)5-15 m tall, 20-40 cm in diam. Bark gray, scabrid. Twigs gray, angled. Petiole 0.6-1.2 cm; leaf blade abaxially glaucous-green or brown when dry, ovate, oblong-ovate, or oblong-obovate, 7-16(-20) × 3-6 cm, thinly leathery, midvein raised abaxially, impressed adaxially; secondary veins 10-15 pairs,…

Species: Cratoxylum cochinchinense English Name: Yellow Cow Wood Chinese Name: 黃牛木 Family: Theaceae Description: Shrubs or trees, deciduous, 1.5-18(-25) m tall, glabrous. Trunk with clusters of long thorns on lower part. Bark gray-yellow or gray-brown, smooth or finely striate. Twigs somewhat compressed, glabrous and pink when young, interpetiolar scars not always continuous. Petiole 2-3 mm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially…