Chloranthus spicatus

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Chloranthus spicatus

Description

Small glabrous shrub, 0.5-1.5 m, with ascending or ± spreading branches. Leaves oblong-ovate or ovate-elliptic to elliptic, 4-13.5 by 2-8.5 cm, rather obtuse or at least not or scarcely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, rather coarsely crenate-serrate, nerves 4-6 pairs; Inflorescences terminal with 10-20 ascending spikes 2-5 cm long; Fruit green or yellowish, 4 by 2 mm, narrowed at the base.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa cultivated); Sumatera (Sumatera cultivated), Parakansalak cultivated
China but widely cultivated elsewhere in eastern Asia; in Malesia cultivated in Java (e.g. Parakansalak) and Sumatra (West Coast); 700-920 m. Fl..

Citation

QIN& SHA 1981 – In: Fang, Fl. Sichuanica: 139
STEWARD 1958: Man. Vase. Pl. Lower Yangtze Valley: 70: f. 43
WUKUO-FANG 1982: p. 83. – In: Fl. Reipubl. Pop. Sin.: t. 26/1-5
LAMK 1791 – In: Ill. Gen.: t. 71
SOLMS-LAUB. 1869 – In: DC., Prod. 16: 474
ENGLER 1894: p. 13. – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 3: f. 12
PEI 1935: p. 668. – In: Sinensia: f. 2
Benth. 1861: Fl. Hongk.: 334
MAKINO 1947 – In: Bot. Bull. Acad. Sinica: 114
BURK. 1935: Diet.: 535
MANSFIELD 1959 – In: Die Kulturpfl. Beih.: 13
THUNB. 1784: Fl. Jap.: 65
Koord. 1912: p. 42. – In: Exk. Fl. Java: f. 3
BRITTEN 1917 – In: J. Bot.: 344
OHWI 1965: Fl. Japan: 361
LECOMTE 1910 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 95
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 176
Merr. 1935 – In: Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n.s.: 127
C.Y. Wu 1977: p. 18. – In: Fl. Yunnanica: f. 5/4-6
L'HERIT. 1788: Sert. Angl: 35: t. 2
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 129
FORBES & HEMSLEY 1891 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 368