Cinnamomum kanehirae

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Cinnamomum kanehirae
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Cinnamomum
Species:
C. kanehirae
Binomial name
Cinnamomum kanehirae
(Hayata) Hayata
The longitudinal splits in the trunk is one of the tree's characteristics.

Cinnamomum kanehirae (Chinese name niu zhang()), also known as small-flowered camphor tree, or stout camphor tree, is a tree within the genus Cinnamomum of the family Lauraceae endemic to Taiwan.

Characteristics[]

The tree can grow up to 30 m tall, 2 m across; evergreen trees; bark brown, fissured; branchlets glabrous, and yellow-green in color; leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, margins often wavy, broadly ovate, ovate to elliptic, polished, 10–15 cm long, 4-7.5 cm wide, green and glabrous on both sides, usually with 0-3 or often 5 main veins, rarely with pinnate veins, lateral veins 2-3 pairs, short acute at apex, obtuse-rounded at base; petioles 1.4–3 cm long, grooved above. Inflorescences cymes, terminal; bracts of flowers pubescent outside, 2–3 mm across; perianth 6, pale-yellow, oblong, 2 mm long, tomentose at base inside, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens 0.5 mm long, tomentose at base inside, anthers 4-celled, eglandular, introrse, 3rd whorl of stamens with glands, tomentose at base inside, anthers 4-celled, extrorse. Berry compressed-obconic or globose, l.2-1.3 cm long, l.2-1.5 cm across, green to blackish-violet, slightly pubescent to glabrous; seeds globose, 1 cm across, rounded on both sides. Flowering Nov. to December.; Fruiting Sept. to October.[1][2][3]

Habitat[]

This species is present at 200-2,000 m, mixed with C. micranthum in broad-leaved forests throughout Taiwan.[1][2]

Uses[]

It commonly used in carving or manufacturing equipments, and sometimes used in furniture; branches and leaves can also be distilled and obtained wood essential oils.[1][2]

Gallery[]

  • New branch

  • New leaves

  • Leaves

  • One of the tree's characteristics is that the tree is tall and straight.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c LlAO, JIH CHING (1996). 27. LAURACEAE. Flora of Taiwan, second edition.
  2. ^ a b c "Herbarium of National Taiwan University. 2012. Plant of Taiwan".
  3. ^ Wu, Chia-Chen; Ho, Cheng-Kuen; Chang, Shu-Hwa (July 2016). "The complete chloroplast genome of Cinnamomum kanehirae Hayata (Lauraceae)". Mitochondrial DNA Part A. 27 (4): 2681–2682. doi:10.3109/19401736.2015.1043541. ISSN 2470-1408. PMID 26053940.
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