Month: February 2015

Species: Annona reticulata English Name: Bullock’s Heart Chinese Name: 牛心番荔枝、牛心果 Family: Annonaceae Description: Trees to 6 m tall, evergreen. Branchlets grayish sericeous, glabrescent. Axillary leaf buds ovoid, apex obtuse. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 9-30 × 2-7 cm, papery, pubescent when young but glabrescent, secondary veins 9-18 on each side of midvein, forming an angle of 30°-60° with…

Species: Machilus velutina  English Name: Woolly Machilus Chinese Name: 絨毛潤楠、香港楠木、絨毛楨楠 Family: Lauraceae Description: Trees, to 18 m tall; trunk ca. 40 cm d.b.h., all parts densely ferruginous tomentose. Petiole 1-2.5(-3) cm; leaf blade lustrous adaxially, narrowly obovate, elliptic, or narrowly ovate, 5-11(-18) × 2-2.5(-5.5) cm, leathery, midrib abaxially raised, slightly concave adaxially, lateral veins 8-11 pairs, abaxially conspicuously raised,…

Species: Litsea rotundifolia  English Name: Hong Kong Machilu Chinese Name: 華潤楠、楨楠、八角楠 Family: Lauraceae Description: Trees, 8-11 m tall. Branchlets glabrous. Terminal buds small; bud scales glabrous or sometimes with hairs. Petiole 6-14 mm; leaf blade obovate-oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 5-8(-10) × 2-3(-4) cm, leathery, glabrous on both surfaces, midrib raised abaxially, concave adaxially, lateral veins ca. 8 pairs, reticulate veinlets…

Species: Litsea rotundifolia  English Name: Oblong-leaf Litsea Chinese Name: 豺皮木薑子、圓葉木薑子 Family: Lauraceae Description: Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 3 m tall. Branchlets glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves scattered; petiole 3-10 mm, pubescent when young and becoming glabrous; leaf blade broadly ovate-rounded, rotund, ovate, or ovate-oblong, glabrous on both surfaces and glaucous abaxially, pinninerved, lateral veins 3 or 4…

Species: Litsea glutinosa  English Name: Persimmon-leaved Litsea Chinese Name: 假柿木薑子、假柿木薑、假沙梨 Family: Lauraceae Description: Evergreen trees up to 18 m tall, ca. 15 cm d.b.h. Branchlets densely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-3 cm, densely hairy like branchlets; leaf blade broadly ovate or obovate to ovate-oblong, 8-20 × 4-12 cm, densely ferruginous pubescent abaxially, along midrib ferruginous pubescent adaxially when…

Species: Tinospora sinensis  English Name: Chinese Tinospora Chinese Name: 中華青牛膽 Family: Menispermaceae Description: Deciduous vines, to 20 m or longer, puberulent when young, often producing very long aerial roots. Old branches fat and thick, bark brownish, membranous, and often glabrous. Stems slightly fleshy, green when young, striate, pubescent; lenticels raised, (2-)4(-6)-dehiscent. Petiole (4-)6-13 cm, puberulent; leaf blade broadly ovate…

Species: Cinnamonmum camphora  English Name: Camphor Tree Chinese Name: 樟樹、香樟、油樟 Family: Lauraceae Description: Tree, up to 30 m tall, all parts strongly camphor-scented. Leaves alternate; petioles slender, 2-3 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, 6-12 x 2.5-5.5 cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acute, margin entire, subleathery, glabrous or sparsely puberulent abaxially when young, triplinerved, with domatia in axils…

Species: Cyclea hypoglauca English Name:  Glaucous-leaved Cyclea Chinese Name: 粉葉輪環藤 Family: Menispermaceae Description: Vines, woody when old, glabrous except for hairy leaf axils. Branchlets slender. Petiole slender, 1.5-4 cm; leaf blade usually conspicuously peltate, ovate-triangular to ovate, 2.5-7 × 1.5-4.5 cm or slightly more, papery, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely whitish puberulent, base truncate to rounded, margin entire, slightly…

Species: Michellia champaca English Name: Yellow Jade Orchid Tree Chinese Name: 黃蘭丶黃玉蘭 Family: Magnoliaceae Description: Evergreen tree, up to 10 m or taller, buds, young twigs, young leaves and petioles covered with pale yellow appressed hairs. Stipular scars exceeding middle of petioles. Petioles 2-4 cm. Leaves lanceolate-ovate or lanceolate-long elliptic, 10-20(-25) x 4.5-9 cm, base broadly cuneate or cuneate, apex long…

Species: Cyclea barbata  English Name:  Hairy Cyclea Chinese Name: 毛輪環藤 Family: Menispermaceae Description: Vines, herbaceous, to 5 m. Roots slightly fleshy, ?not tuberous. Young branches hispid. Petiole hispid, 1-5 cm; leaf blade conspicuously peltate, ± broadly triangular-ovate, 4-10 × 2.5-8 cm or more, papery or submembranous, abaxially puberulent to tomentose, margin densely hispid, adaxially hispid or sometimes subglabrous, base…