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17. RHAPHIOLEPIS Lindley, Bot. Reg. 6: t. 468. 1820.
石斑木属 shi ban mu shu
Gu Cuizhi (Ku Tsue-chih); Stephen A. Spongberg
Opa Loureiro, nom. rej.
Shrubs or small trees, evergreen. Leaves simple, shortly petiolate, leathery, venation camptodromous, margin serrate or entire; stipules caducous, subulate. Inflorescences in terminal racemes or panicles. Hypanthium campanulate to tubular. Sepals 5, erect or reflexed. Petals 5, white or pink, base shortly clawed. Stamens 15–20. Ovary inferior, 2-loculed, with 2 erect ovules per locule; styles 2 or 3, connate at base. Pome drupe-like, purplish black or bluish, subglobose, succulent, with early caducous sepals leaving an annular ring; seeds 1 or 2, subglobose, large, seed coat thin, cotyledons thickened, plano-convex or semiglobose.
About 15 species: E Asia; seven species (three endemic) in China.
Rhaphiolepis jiulongjiangensis P. C. Huang & K. M. Li (J. Nanjing Inst. Forest. 13(4): 85. 1989), described from Fujian (Hua'an Xian), requires further study. We are unable to treat it in this account because we have seen no specimens.
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Leaves abaxially, petiole, and pedicel densely rusty tomentose. |
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Leaves glabrous or only abaxially slightly tomentose or pubescent; inflorescence glabrous or pubescent. |
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Leaf blade lanceolate, oblanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate. |
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Leaf blade ovate, obovate, elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate. |
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Leaf blade lanceolate or oblanceolate, rarely obovate-oblong, apex acuminate or acute. |
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5 R. salicifolia |
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Leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate. |
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Leaf margin remotely serrate. |
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Leaf margin entire or remotely crenate. |
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Leaf blade ovate or oblong, rarely obovate or oblong-lanceolate, 2–8 cm; inflorescence tomentose or glabrous; fruit 5–8 mm in diam. |
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1 R. indica |
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Leaf blade narrowly elliptic to obovate-oblong, 7–15 cm; inflorescence tomentose; fruit 7–10 mm in diam. |
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Branches spreading; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, ovate, or obovate; petiole 5–10 mm. |
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3 R. umbellata |
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Branches erect or ascending; leaf blade oblong, or oblong-obovate; petiole very short or nearly absent. |
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4 R. integerrima |
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