Month: February 2015

Species: Artocarpus macrocarpus English Name: Jack Fruit Chinese Name: 菠蘿蜜 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Artocarpus hypargyreus English Name: Silverback Artocarpus Chinese Name: 白桂木 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees 10-25 m tall, d.b.h. 40 cm. Bark dark purple, exfoliating. Young branchlets 1.5-2 thick, grayish to whitish appressed puberulent. Stipules linear, caducous. Leaves distichous; petiole 1.5-2 cm, pubescent; leaf blade elliptic to obovate, 8-15 × 4-7 cm, pinnately lobed on young trees, leathery, abaxially green…

Species: Artocarpus altilis English Name: Bread Fruit Chinese Name: 麵包樹 Family: Moraceae 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: Ulmus parvifolia English Name: Small-leaved Elm Chinese Name: 榔榆 Family: Ulmaceae Description: Trees, to 25 m tall, d.b.h. to 100 cm, deciduous. Crown broadly orbicular. Bark gray to grayish brown, ± smooth, exfoliating into irregular scale-like flakes. Branchlets dark brown, densely pubescent when young, never winged. Winter buds reddish brown, ovoid-orbicular, glabrous. Petiole 2-6 mm, pubescent; leaf blade…

Species: Trema tomentosa English Name: India-charcoal Trema Chinese Name: 山黃麻 Family: Ulmaceae Description: Trees or shrubs, to 10 m tall. Bark grayish brown, smooth or fissured. Branchlets grayish brown to brown, densely grayish brown to gray pubescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 6-9 mm. Petiole 0.7-1.8 cm, pubescent; leaf blade grayish brown to black-brown when dry, 7-15(-20) × 3-7(-8) cm, abaxially with…

Species: Celtis timorensis English Name: Philippine Hackberry Chinese Name: 樟葉樸 Family: Ulmaceae Description: Trees, to 20 m tall, evergreen. Bark grayish white, gray, or grayish brown. Branchlets golden brown pubescent when young, brown and glabrescent with age, with scattered short linear lenticels. Winter buds brown, ca. 2 mm; scales at least inner ones pubescent. Stipules linear-lanceolate to linear, 2-7…

Species: Celtis sinesis English Name: Chinese Hackberry Chinese Name: 樸樹 Family: Ulmaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Celtis biondii English Name: Biond Hackberry Chinese Name: 黑彈樸 Family: Ulmaceae Description: Trees, to 18 m tall, deciduous. Bark gray. Branchlets yellowish brown, brown with age, densely pubescent when young, with scattered lenticels. Winter buds blackish brown, 3-5 mm, densely strigose; scales at least inner ones hispid with appressed parallel hairs. Stipules linear-lanceolate, pubescent, caducous. Petiole 3-6 mm,…

Species: Daphniphyllum calycinum English Name: Calyx-shaped Daphniphyllum Chinese Name: 牛耳楓 Family: Daphniphyllaceae Description: Shrubs, 1.5-4 m tall; branchlets grayish brown, sparsely lenticellate. Petiole 4-8 cm; leaf blade obovate or obovate-elliptic, 12-16 × 4-9 cm, chartaceous, glaucous and inconspicuously papillate abaxially, green and shining adaxially, base broadly cuneate, margin slightly reflexed, apex obtuse or rounded, mucronate; lateral veins 8-11 pairs,…

Species: Mytilaria laosensis English Name: Lao Mytilaria Chinese Name: 穀菜果 Family: Hamamelidaceae Description: Trees to 30 m tall; branchlets stout, glabrous. Petiole 7–10 cm, glabrous; leaf blades broadly ovate-rounded, 10–13 × 7–10 cm, abaxially yellow-green or grayish, glabrous, adaxially drying olive-green, shiny, apex shortly acute, palmately 5-veined, veins raised. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, ca. 4 cm, densely many-flowered; peduncle…