Sarcandra glabra
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Description
Glabrous shrub or half-woody herb, 0.6-3 m tall;
Leaves elliptic-oblanceolate, lanceolate or narrowly elongate-elliptic, 2-20 by 1-8 cm, long-acuminate, cuneate at the base, ± subcoriaceous, coarsely or shallowly very sharply serrate or dentate-serrate, the teeth with thickened points;
Inflorescences greenish or ± white, 3-8 cm long, the spikes rather dense, 1-3.5 (-5) cm long;
Fruit at first yellow, becoming red or bright orange, very rarely black, 4-7 mm ø (dry), shining.
Seed pale, yellowish or cream.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Continental SE. & E. Asia present
Continental SE. & E. Asia, throughout Malesia.
Notes
The typical subsp. glabra occurs in N. & Central China, Korea, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Some specimens from NW. India and S. China are somewhat intermediate.
Citation
QIN & SHAW 1981: p. 135. – In: Fang, Fl. Sichuanica 1: f. 57
FORBES& HEMSLEY 1891 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 367
MEIJER 1968 – In: Bot. Bull. Herb. For. Dept. Sandakan: 33
REHDER 1929 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 111
Wu KUO-FANG 1982: p. 79. – In: Fl. Reipubl. Pop. Sin.: f. 25/1-5
SWAMY & BAILEY 1950 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 117
OHWI 1965: Fl. Japan: 361
SOLMS-LAUB. 1869 – In: DC., Prod. 16: 475
C.Y. Wu 1977: p. 21. – In: Fl. Yunnanica: f. 6/5-7
Liu TANG-SHUI 1976: p. 566. – In: Fl. Taiwan: t. 410
Verdcourt 1985 – In: Kew Bull.: 216
HORIKAWA 1972 – In: Atlas FL Japan: map 28