Month: December 2013

Species: Casuarina equisetifolia English Name: Horsetail Tree Chinese Name: 木麻黃 Family: Casuarinaceae Description: Trees monoecious, to 35 m tall, not suckering from roots. Trunk straight, to 70 cm d.b.h.; crown conical; bark scaly, adaxially red-brown on old trees. Ultimate branchlets usually pendu- lous, grayish green, 10-27 cm × 0.8-0.9 mm; articles (2.5-)4-9 mm. Leaves erect and appressed to branchlets,…

Species: Quercus phillyraeoides English Name: Busky Oak Chinese Name: 烏岡櫟 Family: Fagaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: – Wu ZY, Raven PH, Hong DY (eds) (1994). Flora of China, Volume 4: UCycadaceae through Fagaceae. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Bot Garden Press, St. Louis

Species: Quercus fabri English Name: White Oak Chinese Name: 白櫟 Family: Fagaceae Description: Trees or occasionally large shrubs, to 20 m tall, deciduous. Branchlets densely gray to grayish brown tomentose. Petiole 3-5 mm, yellowish brown pubescent; leaf blade obovate to elliptic-obovate, 7-15 × 3-8 cm, both surfaces with yellowish gray stellate hairs, base cuneate to narrowly rounded, margin undulate…

Species: Cyclobalanopsis bella English Name: Beautiful Oak Chinese Name: 檳榔青岡 Family: Fagaceae Description: Trees to 30 m tall. Branchlets subangular, pubescent, glabrescent. Petiole 1-2 cm, glabrous; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, 8-15 × 2-3.5 cm, subleathery, adnate pubescent when young, glabrescent and grayish green with age, base cuneate and slightly oblique, margin apical 1/2 serrate, apex acuminate; midvein and…

Species: Castanopsis fissa English Name: Evergreen Chinkapin Chinese Name: 黧蒴錐 Family: Fagaceae Description: Trees; bud scales, shoot apexes, and young leaf blades abaxially yellowish brown puberulent and covered with rust-colored, small, lamellate, slightly adnate, waxy scalelike trichomes. Branchlets red-purple, prominently angular. Leaves spirally arranged, yellowish brown to gray; petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade oblong to obovate-elliptic, very variable in…

Species: Pilea microphylla English Name: Artillery Clearweed Chinese Name: 小葉冷水花 Family: Urticaceae Description: Herbs weak, glabrous, monoecious. Stems erect or ascending, blue-green when dry, simple or branched, 3-17 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm in diam., succulent, cystoliths dense. Stipules persistent, triangular, ca. 0.5 mm, membranous; petiole slender, unequal in length, 1-4 mm; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially green, obovate…

Species: Pouzolzia zeylanica English Name: Ceylon Pouzolzia Chinese Name: 霧水葛 Family: Urticaceae Description: Herbs perennial, erect or ascending, rarely prostrate, almost simple or few branched at base, 12-40 cm tall; rootstock often tuberous; branches sometimes with short branchlets, strigillose. Leaves often opposite, sometimes alternate on lower or upper stems; stipules triangular, 2-6 mm; petiole 0.2-1.8 cm; leaf blade ovate…

Species: Pellionia repens English Name: Creeping Pellionia Chinese Name: 吐煙花 Family: Urticaceae Description: Herbs perennial, monoecious or dioecious. Stems prostrate, usually branched, terete, pubescent or glabrescent. Leaves alternate; stipules triangular, 4-10 × 2-5 mm; petiole 1.5-5 mm; leaf blade papery, obliquely elliptic or obovate, 1.8-11 × 1.2-4.0 cm, major lateral veins asymmetric, one basal, the other arising above base,…

Species: Boechmeria nivea English Name: Ramie Chinese Name: 苧麻 Family: Urticaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: – Wu ZY, Raven PH, Hong DY (eds) (2003). Flora of China, Volume 5: Ulmaceae through Basellaceae. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Bot Garden Press, St. Louis

Species: Morus alba English Name: White Mulberry Chinese Name: 桑 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs or trees, 3-10 m tall. Bark gray, shallowly furrowed. Branches finely hairy. Winter buds reddish brown, ovoid, finely hairy. Stipules lanceolate, 2-3.5 cm, densely covered with short pubescence. Petiole 1.5-5.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, irregularly lobed, 5-30 × 5-12 cm, abaxially…