Month: February 2015
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Diploclisia glaucescens
Read More: Diploclisia glaucescensSpecies: Diploclisia glaucescens English Name: Glaucescent Diploclisia Chinese Name: 蒼白秤鈎風、防己 Family: Menispermaceae Description: Large woody vines, to 20 m or longer. Stems up to 10 cm in diam.; branches and leaves rather similar to Diploclisia affinis, except axillary bud only 1. Petiole usually much longer than lamina; leaf blade not peltate to conspicuously peltate, glaucescent abaxially, leathery. Inflorescences cauliflorous, on…
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Piper sarmentosum
Read More: Piper sarmentosumSpecies: Piper sarmentosum English Name: Running Pepper Chinese Name: 假蒟、蛤蒟 Family: Piperaceae Description: Herbs to more than 10 m, mostly creeping along ground, most parts very finely powdery pubescent at least when young, dioecious. Fertile stems ± erect. Petiole 2-5 cm (-10 cm on creeping stems), very finely powdery pubescent; leaf blades toward base of stem ovate to suborbicular,…
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Litsea glutinosa
Read More: Litsea glutinosaSpecies: Litsea glutinosa English Name: Pond spice Chinese Name: 潺槁樹、潺槁木薑子、油槁樹、膠樟 Family: Lauraceae Description: Evergreen or deciduous trees, 3-15 m tall. Young branchlets gray-yellow tomentose. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-2.6 cm, gray-yellow tomentose; leaf blade obovate, obovate-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, 3.5-10(-26) × 1.5-11 cm, tomentose on both surfaces when young, tomentose or subglabrous abaxially and only midrib slightly tomentose adaxially when old,…
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Michelia macclurei
Read More: Michelia macclureiSpecies: Michelia macclurei English Name: McClure’s Michelia Chinese Name: 醉香含笑丶火力楠 Family: Magnoliaceae Description: Trees, to 30 m tall, to 1 m d.b.h. Bark grayish white, smooth and not fissured. Young twigs, buds, petioles, stipules, and brachyblasts densely firmly and glossy reddish brown shortly tomentose to spreading villous. Petiole 1.5-4 cm, adaxially narrowly furrowed, without a stipular scar; leaf blade…
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Michelia chapensis
Read More: Michelia chapensisSpecies: Michelia chapensis English Name: Leachang Michelia Chinese Name: 樂昌含笑 Family: Magnoliaceae Description: Trees, 15-30 m tall, to 1 m d.b.h. Bark gray to dark brown. Twigs glabrous or nodes grayish puberulous when young. Petiole 1-2.5 cm, adaxially furrowed, glabrous or puberulous when young but later glabrescent, without a stipular scar; leaf blade obovate, narrowly obovate, or oblong-obovate, 6.5-15(-16)…
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Sphyrna lewini
Read More: Sphyrna lewiniSpecies: Sphyrna lewini English Name: Scalloped Hammerhead Chinese Name: 路氏雙髻鯊, 紅肉丫髻鮫 Family: Sphyrnidae Description: The Scalloped Hammerhead has uniform grey, greyish brown, or olivaceous body with shading to white below. The pectoral fins are tipped with grey or black ventrally. The head of this hammerhead is depressed and extended laterally. Can grow up to a…
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Enhydris bennettii
Read More: Enhydris bennettiiSpecies: Enhydris bennettii English Name: Mangrove Water Snake, Bennett’s Mud Snake, Bennett’s Water Snake Chinese Name: 黑斑水蛇 Family: Homalopsidae Description: Small (at least 50-75 cm), mildly venomous snake with two large teeth at the back of the upper jaw. The back is olive-grey with dark grey crossbars and the ventral side is yellowish with black marginated scales. Can be…
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Protaetia orientalis
Read More: Protaetia orientalisSpecies: Protaetia orientalis English Name: Green Rose Chafer, Oriental Flower Beetle Chinese Name: 白點星花金龜 Family: Scarabaeidae Description: This Chafer has 2-2,5 cm in length and metallic green, golden-green, coppery or coppery-brown coloration. Each side of the pronotum has a narrow white line and the dorsal surface has several white spots and marks. The adults pest on peach and lychee…
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Trocholejeunea sandvicensis
Read More: Trocholejeunea sandvicensisSpecies: Trocholejeunea sandvicensis English Name: Trocholejeunea Chinese Name: 南亞瓦鱗苔 Family: Lejeuneaceae Description: Medium sized. 1-3cm long,irregularly branched. Autoicus, with small and homogeneous oil bodies. Found on tree trunks or rock surfaces in forests, from low lands up to 2,600m. Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: – Department of Gardens and Green Areas, Civic…
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Lejeunea anisophylla
Read More: Lejeunea anisophyllaSpecies: Lejeunea anisophylla English Name: Lejeunea Chinese Name: 異葉細鱗苔 Family: Lejeuneaceae Description: Medium size, 5-20cm long, irregularly branched. Autoicus, oil bodies compound type, coarsely segmented. Found on trunks, branches and leaf surfaces of trees, shrubs and ferns. Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: – Department of Gardens and Green Areas, Civic and…
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