Month: February 2015

Species: Yulania denudata English Name: Yulan Magnolia Chinese Name: 玉蘭丶玉堂春丶木蘭 Family: Magnoliaceae Description: Deciduous tree, up to 25 m tall, bark deep grey, rough and fissured; winter buds and peduncles densely covered with pale greyish yellow skilky hairs. Stiuplar scars l/4-l/3 the length of petioles. Petioles 1-2.5cm, villose adaxially narrowly furrowed. Leaves obovate emarginate, adaxially deep green, villose when young,…

Species: Stauntonia chinensis   English Name:  Chinese Stauntonia Chinese Name: 野木瓜、華野木瓜 Family: Lardizabalaceae Description: Monoecious. Stems green, striate; bark pale grayish brown, thick, rough. Petiole 5–10 cm; leaf blade palmately 5–7-foliolate; petiolules 0.6–2.5 cm; leaflets oblong, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, 6–9(–11.5) × 2–4 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green and densely pale colored maculate, adaxially dark green and shiny, base obtuse, rounded,…

Species: Mahonia fortunei  English Name:  Chinese Mahonia Chinese Name: 十大功勞 Family: Berberidaceae Description: Shrubs, 0.5-2(-4) m tall. Leaves abaxially pale yellowish green, occasionally slightly glaucous, adaxially dull to deep green, obovate to obovate-elliptic, 10-28 × 8-18 cm; leaflets 2-5 pairs, lowest pair similar to others, 2-9 cm above base of petiole, abaxial veins branched, raised, adaxial veins indistinct; rachis…

Species: Clematis parvilobe English Name:  Small-lobed Clematis Chinese Name: 裂葉鐵線蓮 Family: Ranunculaceae Description: Subshrubby climber, stem and branches loosely clothed with short silky hairs.  Levaes mostly twice temate; leaflets papery, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 1.5-6 x 0.8-2.3 cm, base rounded, apex acuminate, entire or coasrsely serrate, appressed pubescent on both surfaces, 3-nerved. Panicles few flowered and leafy, axillary or terminal;…

Species: Piper hancei English Name:  Hance’s Pepper Chinese Name: 山蒟 Family: Piperaceae Description: Climbers to more than 10 m, glabrous except for rachis and bases of bracts, dioecious. Stems rooting at nodes, finely striated. Petiole 5-12 mm; prophyll ca. 1/2 as long as petiole; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 6-12 × 2.5-4.5 cm, papery to ± leathery,…

Species: Piper betle  English Name:  Betel Pepper Chinese Name: 蔞葉、蒟醬 Family: Piperaceae Description: Climbers dioecious. Stems rooted at nodes, 2.5-5 mm thick, slightly woody. Petiole 2-5 cm, very finely powdery pubescent; prophylls ca. 1/3 as long as petioles; leaf blade ovate to ovate-oblong, those at apex of stem sometimes elliptic, 7-15 × 5-11 cm, papery to ± leathery, abaxially…

Species: Peperomia scandens English Name:  Hanging Peperomia Chinese Name: 垂椒草 Family: Piperaceae Description:

Species: Phoebe nanmu  English Name: Nanmu Chinese Name: 滇楠 Family: Lauraceae Description:    

Species: Lindera communis  English Name: Chinese Spicebush Chinese Name: 香葉樹、香果樹、香葉子 Family: Lauraceae Description: Evergreen shrubs or trees, (1-)3-4(-5) m tall, ca. 25 cm d.b.h. Bark brownish. One-year-old branchlets stout, glabrous, with irregular longitudinal splits; current year branchlets slender, green and brown when dry, striate, laxly or densely yellow-white pubescent, with many bud scale scars at base. Terminal bud ovate,…

Species: Hypserpa nitida  English Name: Shining Hypserpa Chinese Name: 夜花藤 Family: Menispermaceae Description: Woody vines. Branchlets sparsely to densely pubescent with yellowish hairs when young, glabrescent. Petiole 1-2 cm, pubescent or subglabrescent; leaf blade ovate, ovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rarely elliptic or broadly elliptic, 4-10(-12) × 1.5-5(-7) cm, papery to leathery, both surfaces usually glabrous, rarely pubescent along nerves, adaxially…