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小勾儿茶Berchemiella wilsonii (Schneid.) Nakai

小勾儿茶Berchemiella wilsonii (Schneid.) Nakai

别名:后河小勾儿茶;

科名:鼠李科 Rhamnaceae

属名:小勾儿茶属 Berchemiella

《中国植物志》第48(1)卷105页
  1. 小勾儿茶(新拟)
  Berchemiella wilsonii (Schneid.) Nakai in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 37: 31. 1923. ——Chaydaia wilsonii Schneid. in Sarg. Pl. Wils. 2: 221. 1914. ——Berchemia wilsonii (Schneid.) Koidz. in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 39: 21. 1925.
  落叶灌木,高3-6米;小枝无毛,褐色,具密而明显的皮孔,有纵裂纹,老枝灰色。叶纸质,互生,椭圆形,长7-10厘米,宽3-5厘米,顶端钝,有短突尖,基部圆形,不对称,上面绿色,无光泽,无毛,下面灰白色,无乳头状突起,仅脉腋微被髯毛,侧脉每边8-10条;叶柄长4-5毫米,无毛,上面有沟槽;托叶短,三角形,背部合生而包裹芽。顶生聚伞总状花序,长3.5厘米,无毛;花芽圆球形,直径1.5毫米,短于花梗;花淡绿色,构造与勾儿茶属Berchemia相似,但萼片三角状卵形,内面中肋中部具喙状突起,花瓣宽倒卵形,顶端微凹,基部具短爪,与萼片近等长,子房基部为花盘所包围,花柱短,2浅裂。果未见。花期7月。
  产湖北兴山。生海拔1300米的林中。模式标本采自兴山。
  C. K. Schneider (1914)依据采自湖北兴山的标本(Wilson 3388)发表了 Chaydaia wilsoni Schneid.,后为 Nakai 移于本属, 但迄今未见到标本。上述的描述是根据原始记载和模式标本照片写成。▽此外,安徽歙县柏子山的标本叶形及质地与日本产的日本小勾儿茶 B. berchemiaefolia (Makino) Nakai 极为近似,但叶柄长仅3-4毫米,与本种相同。由于该标本不完全,暂时难以确定,有待进一步的研究。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 12 (2007)
Berchemiella wilsonii  (C. K. Schneider) Nakai
小勾儿茶   xiao gou er cha
Shrubs deciduous, 3-6 m tall. Branchlets brown, glabrous, with dense, conspicuous lenticels and longitudinal slits; old branches gray. Stipules broadly triangular, abaxially connate, surrounding buds; petiole 4-5 mm, glabrous or pilose; leaf blade adaxially gray-white, elliptic, 7-10 × 3-5 cm, papery, abaxially densely pubescent or with barbate vein axils, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, base rounded, asymmetrical, apex obtuse, mucronulate. Inflorescences ca. 3.5 cm, glabrous. Flowers greenish, glabrous, in terminal cymose racemes or few in axillary cymes; flower buds globose, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., shorter than pedicels. Calyx tube cup-shaped; lobes triangular, adaxially slightly keeled and with minute basal beak. Petals broadly obovate, very short, ca. 1 mm, apex emarginate, hooded. Disk thin, lining calyx tube, marginally slightly thickened and prominent. Ovary globose, basally surrounded but not immersed into disk; style cylindric, short, undivided; stigma capitate, distinctly 2- or 3-lobed. Fruit red when young, nearly black at maturity, cylindric to slightly obovoid. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug-Sept.
● Forests, valley forests; 500-1500 m. Anhui, W Hubei, Zhejiang.

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