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染木树Saprosma ternatum Hook. f.

染木树Saprosma ternatum Hook. f.

别名:染木;

科名:茜草科 Rubiaceae

属名:染木树属 Saprosma

《中国植物志》第71(2)卷067页
  3.染木树(海南植物志)图版17: 9-12
  Saprosma ternatum Hook. f. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 2 (1): 131. 1873; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 193. 1881; Merr in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 5: 177. 1927; 海南植物志3: 357. 1974; 中国高等植物图鉴4: 269, 图5951. 1975.
  直立灌木,高1-4米,有时小乔木状,高达5-6米;嫩枝黄绿色,有棱角,老枝圆柱状,淡灰色。叶通常3片轮生,少有对生,叶片薄革质或纸质,长圆状披针形或长圆状椭圆形,长8-15厘米,宽3-6.5厘米,顶端短渐尖,基部阔楔尖,全缘,两面无毛;侧脉每边7-10条,和网状小脉两面均凸起;叶柄长6-12毫米或稍过之;托叶早落,披针形,长10-12毫米,顶端有2-7枚锐尖的齿。花数朵,生于腋生、很长的总梗末端;苞片和小苞片均三角形,长1-2毫米;花梗长2-10毫米;萼管长约2毫米,无毛,萼檐稍扩大,常4或5浅裂;花冠白色,管长3-4毫米,外面被粉状微柔毛,里面喉部被柔毛,檐部4裂,裂片椭圆形,较冠管稍短;花丝短或极短,花药长圆形,长约2.5毫米;花柱顶端2裂,裂片线形。果椭圆形或近球形,长8-12毫米,径6-8毫米,顶冠以隆起的花盘和极短的萼檐,内含椭圆形种子1颗。花期夏季。
  产海南各地和云南东南部。生于低海拔至中海拔疏林中或山谷林下,较常见。分布于印度东北部和马来西亚及中南半岛。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 19 (2011)
Saprosma ternata  (Wallich) J. D. Hooker Fl. Brit. India. 3: 193. 1881.
染木树   ran mu shu
Paederia ternata Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 2: 520. 1824; Serissa ternata (Wallich) Kurz.
Erect shrubs 1-4 m tall, or sometimes small trees 5-6 m tall; branches angled, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3 or sometimes opposite; petiole 6-12 mm, glabrous; blade drying thinly leathery to papery, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-elliptic, 8-15 × 3-6.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base acute to obtuse, apex shortly acuminate; secondary veins 7-10 pairs, not joining in a submarginal vein, without domatia; stipules caducous, narrowly triangular to lanceolate, 5-12 mm, with 2-7 linear teeth or projections. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, glabrous; peduncles 1-3 per axil, 10-40 mm; bracts triangular to ovate, 1-5 mm, often aristate, usually deciduous after flowering; pedicels 2-10 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion cupuliform, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous; limb 1-2 mm, shallowly and sometimes irregularly lobed; lobes triangular. Corolla tubular, puberulent to tomentulose outside; tube 3-8 mm, pilose in throat; lobes triangular usually with expanded crisped margins, 3-4 mm. Drupes ellipsoid or subglobose, 8-12 × 6-8 mm; pyrenes plano-convex, smooth abaxially. Fl. Apr, Jun, fr. Sep-Nov.
Sparse forests at low to middle elevations, forests in ravines; 400-1000 m. Hainan, Yunnan [NE India, Malaysia].

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