Photinia nussia
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Description
Trees up to 10 m.
Stipules narrowly triangular, 1.5-6 by 0.5-0.8 mm, not very early caducous.
Inflorescences corymb-shaped, 4-6 cm long, with up to 12 primary branches, the lower ones in axils of leaves and branched again, up to 6 cm long, all rachises densely short-woolly, including the up to 7 mm long pedicels.
Sepals broadly triangular, 1-1.8 by by 1.5-2.5 mm.
Petals elliptic to ovate, 4-5.5 by 3-3.5 mm, white.
Stamens c. 20, filaments up to 3 mm, glabrous, anthers 0.7-1 mm long.
Ovary densely hairy on exposed top, 5- (rarely 4-)celled, styles up to 4.5 mm, halfway connate, with hairs at base.
Fruits globular, up to 6 mm diam., upper rim of hypanthium and sepals closely appressed against its bulging, dome-shaped, now almost glabrous top, the pericarp thin and brittle when dry, practically glabrous, colour unknown.
Seeds not seen in mature state.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), E Himalayas present, N Burma present, N Laos present, N Thailand present, NE India present, S China present, continental Asia present
Continental Asia (E Himalayas, NE India, N Burma, N Thailand, N Laos, S China, but not recorded from Taiwan); Malesia: Philippines.