Month: February 2015

Species: Pterospermum heterophyllum English Name: Karnikar Chinese Name: 翻白葉樹 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Trees, to 20 m tall; bark gray or gray-brown. Branchlets yellow-brown pilose. Petiole 1-2 cm, hairy; leaf blade oblong-ovate to oblong, 7-15 × 3-10 cm, abaxially densely yellow-brown stellate pubescent, adaxially nearly glabrous; base obtuse, truncate or obliquely cordate, apex acute or acuminate; juvenile and coppice leaves:…

Species: Pterospermum acerifolium English Name: Acer-leaved Wingseedtree Chinese Name: 翅子樹 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Big trees; bark smooth. Branchlets densely velutinous when young. Stipules linear; petiole robust, striate; leaf blade nearly orbicular or oblong, sometimes ± lobed, 24-34 × 14-29 cm, leathery, abaxially densely yellowish and gray stellate velutinous, adaxially sparsely hairy or glabrous, base cordate, margin entire or crenate,…

Species: Pentapetes phoenicea English Name: Purple-red Pentapetes Chinese Name: 午時花 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Annual herbs, 0.5-1 m tall, sparsely stellate hairy. Petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, 5-10 × 1-2 cm, base broadly cuneate, rounded or truncate, margin crenate, apex acuminate. Flowers opening at noon, closing at dawn. Calyx lobes lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, abaxially stellate velutinous and hispid.…

Species: Melochia corhorifolia English Name: Jute-leaved Melochia Chinese Name: 馬松子 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Helicteres angustifolia English Name: Narrow-leaved Screwtree Chinese Name: 山芝麻 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Small shrubs, up to 1 m tall. Branchlets gray greenish puberulent. Petiole 5-7 mm; leaf blade narrowly oblong or linear-lanceolate, 3.5-5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous or nearly so adaxially, gray or yellowish stellate tomentose, or sometimes also hirsute abaxially, base rounded, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescence…

Species: Firmiana simplex English Name: Chinese Parasol-tree Chinese Name: 梧桐 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Deciduous trees, up to 16 m tall; bark greenish, smooth. Petiole 15-30 cm; leaf blade cordate, palmately 3-5-lobed, 15-30 cm in diam., lobes triangular, both surfaces glabrous or minutely puberulent, basal veins 7, base cordate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence paniculate, terminal, 20-50 cm. Calyx yellowish green, 7-9…

Species: Byttneria aspera English Name: Spiny-fruited Vine Chinese Name: 刺果藤 Family: Sterculiaceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Triumfetta rhomboidea English Name: Triumfetta Chinese Name: 刺蒴麻 Family: Tiliaceae Description: Subshrubs or herbs. Branchlets gray-brown tomentose. Petiole 1-5 cm; lower leaf blades broadly ovate-orbicular, rhomboid, or broadly ovate, 3-lobed, 3-9.5 × 2-8.5 cm, abaxially stellate pilose, adaxially sparsely hairy, basal veins 3-5, 2 lateral ones reaching tip of lobes, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin irregularly bluntly…

Species: Microcos paniculata English Name: Microcos Chinese Name: 破布葉 Family: Tiliaceae Description: Shrubs or small trees 3-12 m tall. Bark rough; branchlets hairy. Stipule filiform, lanceolate, 5-7 mm; petiole 1-1.5 cm, hairy; leaf blade ovate or oblong, 8-18 × 4-8 cm, thinly leathery, very sparsely stellate at first and glabrescent both abaxially and adaxially, basal veins 3, laterals more…

Species: Grewia biloba English Name: Bilobed Grewia Chinese Name: 扁擔桿 Family: Tiliaceae Description: Shrubs or small trees 0.5-1(-4) m tall, many branched. Branchlets pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stipule subulate, 3-4 mm; petiole 4-8 mm, densely puberulent; leaf blade ovate-orbicular or obovate-elliptic, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed, 4-9 × 2.5-4 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially sparsely stellate hairy to stellate tomentose, adaxially more…