赤杨叶 chi yang ye

Halesia fortunei Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 75. 1889; Alniphyllum buddleiifolium Hu & Cheng; A. fauriei Perkins; A. hainanense Hayata; A. macranthum Perkins; A. megaphyllum Hemsley & E. H. Wilson.

Trees to 20 m tall. Trunk straight; bark gray-brown. Branchlets brownish stellate pubescent. Petiole 1--2 cm; leaf blade, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, 5--15(--20) X 4--7(--11) cm, papery, sparsely to densely brown stellate pubescent to tomentose, abaxially sometimes glabrescent, base broadly cuneate to cuneate, margin remotely serrate, apex acute to acuminate, secondary veins 7--12 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemes or panicles, 10--20-flowered, 8--15(--20) cm. Pedicel 4--8 mm. Flowers 1.5--2 cm. Calyx 4--5 mm, densely gray stellate pubescent, teeth ovate-lanceolate. Corolla lobes elliptic, 10--15 X 5--7 mm. Filament tube ca. 8 mm; anthers 3 mm. Style 1.5--1.8 cm, villose. Fruit oblong to ellipsoid, 1--1.8(--2.5) X 0.6--1(--1.2) cm, sparsely white stellate pubescent or glabrous. Seeds 5--7 mm. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Aug-Oct.

Mixed slopes on slopes; 200--2200 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam].