Month: October 2013

Species: Abelmoschus manihot English Name: Sunset Abelmoschus Chinese Name: 黃秋葵 Family: Malvaceae Description: Herbs annual or perennial, 1-2 m tall, most parts long simple-hispid and minutely simple- or few-rayed pubescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, sometimes 2 on each side of petiole, 1-1.5 cm; petiole 6-18 cm; leaf blade palmately 5-9-lobed, 15-30 cm in diam., lobes oblong-lanceolate, sometimes ± pinnately lobed,…

Species: Abelmoschus esculentus English Name: Okra; Gumbo Chinese Name: 秋葵 Family: Malvaceae Description: Herbs annual, 1-2 m tall, most parts with very sparse prickly hairs. Stem often hollow. Stipule filiform, 7-10 mm, sparsely hirsute; petiole 7-15(-35) cm, long hirsute, often with pubescent adaxial groove; leaf blade palmately 3-7-lobed, (5-)10-30 cm in diam., lobes broad to narrow, sparsely hirsute on…

Species: Pachira macrocarpa English Name: Large-fruited Malabar-chestnut Chinese Name: 瓜栗 Family: Bombacaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Chorisia speciosa English Name: Floss-silktree Chinese Name: 絲木綿 Family: Bombacaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Ceiba pentandra English Name: Kapok Tree Chinese Name: 吉貝 Family: Bombacaceae Description: Trees to 30 m tall; buttresses small or absent, trunk often sparsely spiny; main branches verticillate, spreading horizontally; young branches spiny. Petiole 7-14(-25) cm, longer than leaflet blade; leaflets 5-9, petiolules 3-4(-10) mm; blades oblong to lanceolate, 5-20 × 1.5-6.5 cm, thinly leathery, glabrous, base acuminate,…

Species: Bombax ceiba English Name: Red Cotton Tree Chinese Name: 木棉 Family: Bombacaceae Description: Trees to 25 m tall; trunk buttressed, usually very spiny on young trees; bark gray-white; branches spreading. Stipules minute; petiole 10-20 cm; leaflets 5-7, petiolules 1.5-4 cm; blades oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 10-16 × 3.5-5.5 cm, glabrous, lateral veins 15-17 on each side of midrib, ascending,…

Species: Waltheria indica English Name: Florida Waltheria Chinese Name: 蛇婆子 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Erect or ascending subshrubs, up to 1 m tall, multi-branched. Branchlets densely puberulent. Petiole 0.5-1 cm; leaf blade ovate or long elliptic-ovate, 2.5-4.5 × 1.5-3 cm, both surfaces densely puberulent, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margin serrulate, apex obtuse. Inflorescence cymose, capitate, axillary; peduncle nearly absent to…

Species: Sterculia nobilis English Name: Common Sterculia Chinese Name: 蘋婆 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Sterculia lanceolata English Name: Lance-leaved Sterculia Chinese Name: 假蘋婆 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Trees. Branchlets at first pilose. Petiole 2.5-3.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, lanceolate, or elliptic-lanceolate, 9-20 × 3.5-8 cm, abaxially nearly glabrous, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 7-9 on each side of midrib, curved upward, connected near margin, base obtuse or nearly rounded, apex acute. Inflorescence paniculate, 4-10…

Species: Reevesia thyrsoidea English Name: Bunch-like Reevesia Chinese Name: 兩廣梭羅樹 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Trees, evergreen; bark gray-brown. Branchlets brownish black when dried, sparsely stellate puberulent. Petiole 1-3 cm, swollen at both ends; leaf blade oblong to elliptic, 5-7 × 2.5-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 5-7 on each side of midrib, base rounded or obtuse, apex acute…