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中华鹅掌柴Schefflera chinensis (Dunn) Li

中华鹅掌柴Schefflera chinensis (Dunn) Li

科名:五加科 Araliaceae

属名:鹅掌柴属 Schefflera

《中国植物志》第54卷057页
  37.中华鹅掌柴 图版7: 10-17
  Schefflera chinensis (Dunn) Li in Sargentia 2: 17. f. 1. 1942; 何景、曾沧江, 植物分类学报增刊1: 141. 1965——Oreopanax chinensis Dunn in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 35: 500. 1903; 钟心煊, 科学社丛刊1: 186. 1924——Schefflera wangii Li, 1. c. 2: 18. 1942, pro parte.
  乔木,高5-10米。叶有小叶6-7;叶柄长10-30厘米,无毛;小叶片革质,中央的卵状椭圆形或长圆状椭圆形,长15-21厘米,宽6-11厘米,有时更大,两侧的通常为卵状长圆形,长8-14厘米,宽3-5厘米,先端渐尖,基部阔楔形至近圆形,上面绿色,有光泽,无毛,下面灰绿色,疏生星状绒毛或几无毛,边缘全缘或有疏离的细齿或缺刻,侧脉8-12对,和中脉在下面隆起,网脉上面不明显至明显,下面较明显而微隆起;小叶柄不等长,中央的长至7.5厘米,两侧的长1-25厘米,其余介在两者之间,无毛。圆锥花序顶生,主轴和分枝幼时密生星状绒毛,后毛渐脱稀;分枝横生或斜生,长1.5-8厘米;花无梗或近无梗,几十朵聚生成头状花序;头状花序直径1.5-2厘米,单个顶生或数个总状排列在分枝上;苞片阔卵形,外面密生绒毛;小苞片长2-3毫米,外面密生绒毛;萼倒圆锥形,长约2.5毫米,边缘全缘,幼时密生星状绒毛;毛很快脱净;花瓣5,长圆形,长约3.5毫米,外面被很快脱落的星状绒毛;雄蕊5,外露,花丝长约7毫米;子房5室;花柱5,长约l毫米,基部合生,顶端离生。果实球形或近球形,有5稜,直径5-6毫米;宿存花柱长约2.5毫米,2/3合生,顶端离生,反曲;花盘小,直径2-2.5毫米;果梗长2-4毫米。种子的胚乳稍嚼烂状。花期11月,果期次年3-4月。
  分布于云南(福贡、镇康、景东、庐水)。生于常绿阔叶林中或沟旁湿地,海拔1500-2000米。模式标本采自云南思茅。
  本种与五柱鹅掌柴Schefflera pentagyra Tseng & Hoo近似,但花柱基部合生,结实时至少中部以下合生,容易区别。
  福建尚有引种栽培的辐叶鹅掌柴Schefflera actinophylla(Endl.)Harms,原产大洋洲,主要特点是小苞片合生成杯状,花柱全部合生成短柱状。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 13 (2007)
Schefflera chinensis  (Dunn) H. L. Li
中华鹅掌柴   zhong hua e zhang chai
Oreopanax chinensis Dunn, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 35: 500. 1903; Schefflera pentagyra C. J. Tseng & G. Hoo; S. wangii H. L. Li.
Trees, to 10 m tall, probably andromonoecious. Petiole (10-)15-45 cm; petiolules 1-7 cm; leaflets 5-7, oblong-elliptic or elliptic to slightly ovate or obovate, (6-)10-24 × 3-12 cm, leathery, abaxially sparsely stellate pubescent or subglabrous, adaxially glabrous and sometimes shiny, secondary veins 8-12 pairs, raised, tertiary veins conspicuous abaxially, impressed adaxially in dry material, base broadly cuneate to nearly rounded, margin entire, sometimes serrate with 3-8 teeth apically, apex rounded to obtuse to acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of heads, densely woolly stellate pubescent, glabrescent; primary axis 20-35 cm; secondary axes to 15 cm, shorter apically, with a terminal head of bisexual flowers and 1 to few lateral heads of male flowers (caducous but leaving scars); flowers sessile or subsessile, heads globose. Calyx densely stellate pubescent, glabrescent. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles 5, ca. 1 mm, united at base, free apically. Fruit globose to obovoid or obloid, ca. 5 × 4.5-6 mm, 5-ribbed when dry; styles persistent, united for 1-1.5 mm, free arms recurved; pedicels to 1.5(-2) mm. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Feb-Mar.
● Evergreen broad-leaved forests, wet places in valleys, stream banks; 1500-2700 m. Jiangxi, SW Yunnan.

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