齿叶黄皮 chi ye huang pi

Trees 2-5 m tall, deciduous. Leaves 5-15-foliolate; petiolules 4-8 mm; leaflet blades ovate to lanceolate, 4-10 × 2-5 cm, glabrous or villous, base asymmetric, margin serrate or rarely repand, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences terminal. Flowers 4(or 5)-merous, globose in bud. Stamens 8(or 10); filaments geniculate at middle, subulate at apex. Disk small. Ovary globose; style shorter than ovary. Fruit bluish black when ripe, globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam., 1- or 2-seeded. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Oct-Nov.

Montane forests, moist areas in mountains; 300-1500 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, W Hubei, Hunan, E and SE Sichuan, S Yunnan [NE Vietnam].

Molino (Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 16: 130. 1994) placed Clausena dunniana in synonymy of C. anisata (Willdenow) J. D. Hooker ex Bentham.

Lower Taxa

• Clausena dunniana var. dunniana
• Clausena dunniana var. robusta (Tanaka) C. C. Huang