Lindera metcalfiana (Lindera metcalfiana)
Description
Shrubs or trees, (2.5-)3-12 m tall, up to 20 cm d.b.h. Bark gray-black or brownish. Branchlets brown or gray-brown, slender, terete and ± angular when young, thinly striate, laxly yellow-brown sericeous-pubescent, later glabrate. Terminal bud small, corniform-conical, ca. 3 mm, bud scales densely yellow-brown sericeous-pubescent outside. Leaves alternate; petiole 5-8(-10) mm, yellow-brown pubescent; leaf blade gray-green abaxially, yellow-green and gray-brown when dry adaxially, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or lanceolate, 5-13 × 2-4.5 cm, papery or thinly leathery, laxly yellow-brown pubescent along veins on both surfaces, later glabrate, pinninerved, lateral veins 5-10 pairs, purple-brown on both surfaces when dry or only adaxially, reticulate veinlets obvious abaxially and indistinct adaxially, base broadly cuneate, apex long acuminate or caudate-acuminate, falcate or not falcate. Male umbels 1 or 2(or 3), inserted at axillary and yellow-brown pubescent short branch, 6-8-flowered, peduncles slender, 1-1.6 cm, involucral bracts 4; female umbels 4-8-flowered, peduncles 0.6-0.8 cm, thickened at top, laxly yellow-brown pubescent. Male flowers yellow; pedicels 2-3 mm, densely yellow-brown pubescent; tepals 6, nearly equal, broadly ovate, ca. 2 × 1-1.2 mm, yellow-brown pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-punctate, apex obtuse; fertile stamens 9; filaments 2-2.5 mm, laxly pubescent, 2-glandular near base in 3rd whorl; glands rounded-reniform, stipitate; pistil reduced; ovary ovate, ca. 1.2 × 0.6 mm, mucronate at apex
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Laurales
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Family: Lauraceae
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Genus: Lindera
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