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勐仑翅子树Pterospermum menglunense Hsue

勐仑翅子树Pterospermum menglunense Hsue

别名:勐[山/仑]翅子树;勐(山/仑)翅子树;

科名:梧桐科 Sterculiaceae

属名:翅子树属 Pterospermum

《中国植物志》第49(2)卷177页
  7. 勐仑翅子树(植物分类学报)
  Pterospermum menglunense Hsue in Acta Phytotax. Sinica 15 (1): 81. fig.3. 1977.
  乔木,高12米,嫩枝被灰白色短绵毛。叶厚纸质,披针形或椭圆状披针形,长4.5-12.5厘米,宽1.5-4.8厘米,顶端长渐尖或尾状渐尖,基部斜圆形,上面无毛或略被稀疏的短柔毛,下面密被淡黄褐色星状茸毛;叶柄长3-5毫米。花单生于小枝上部的叶腋,白色;小苞片长锥尖状,全缘,长6毫米;花梗长约5毫米;萼片5枚,条形,长3.5-3.8厘米,宽2.5毫米,外面密被黄褐色星状茸毛,内面无毛;花瓣5片,倒卵形,白色,长3厘米,宽8毫米,顶端钝并具小的短尖突,基部渐狭成瓣柄、两面均无毛;雌雄蕊柄长8毫米,无毛;退化雄蕊5枚,长1厘米,无毛,雄蕊每3枚集合成群并与退化雄蕊互生,比退化雄蕊略短;子房卵形,密被淡黄褐色茸毛,长约4毫米。蒴果长椭圆形,长约8厘米,顶端急尖,基部变窄并与果柄连接,果柄长1-2厘米;种子连翅长约3.5厘米。花期4月。
  产云南南部西双版纳勐仑。生于石灰岩山地疏林中。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 12 (2007)
Pterospermum menglunense  H. H. Hsue
勐仑翅子树   meng lun chi zi shu
Trees, to 12 m tall. Branchlets shortly gray-white woolly when young. Petiole 0.3-0.5 cm; leaf blade lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 4.5-12.5 × 1.5-4.8 cm, thickly papery, abaxially densely yellowish brown stellate velutinous, adaxially glabrous or minutely sparsely puberulent, base obliquely rounded, apex long acuminate or caudate-acuminate. Flowers solitary, subterminal; pedicel ca. 0.5 cm; epicalyx lobes long-pointed, entire, ca. 6 mm. Sepals linear, 3.5-3.8 × ca. 0.25 cm, abaxially densely yellow-brown stellate tomentose, adaxially glabrous. Petals white, obovate, ca. 3 × 0.8 cm, glabrous, base tapering into narrow stalk, apex obtuse with acumen. Androgynophore ca. 8 mm, glabrous. Stamens slightly shorter than staminodes; staminodes ca. 1 cm, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, ca. 4 mm, densely yellowish brown tomentose. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 8 cm, base tapering into 1-2 cm stipe, apex acute. Seeds ca. 3.5 cm including wing. Fl. Apr.
● Monsoon forests on limestone hills. S Yunnan (Xishuangbanna).
Pterospermum menglunense, though found within a protected area, is still treated as "Critically endangered" in the IUCN Red List because of the very small, fragmented population.

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