Carpinus microphylla

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Carpinus microphylla
Systematics
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Order : Beech-like (Fagales)
Family : Birch family (Betulaceae)
Subfamily : Hazelnut family (Coryloideae)
Genre : Hornbeam ( Carpinus )
Type : Carpinus microphylla
Scientific name
Carpinus microphylla
ZCChen ex YSWang & JPHuang

Carpinus microphylla is a shrub from the genus of hornbeams ( Carpinus ) with dense, light brown shaggy branches and small leaves. The natural range of the species is in China.

description

Carpinus microphylla is a shrub up to 3 meters high with gray bark . The twigs are gray-brown and densely hairy yellow-brown shaggy. The leaves have a 1 to 1.2 centimeter long, densely shaggy stalk. The almost leathery leaf blade is 0.9 to 1.3 inches long and 0.7 to 1.2 inches wide, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, with a more or less rounded base and an irregularly double-serrated leaf edge. Seven to eleven pairs of nerves protruding from the top and sunken at the bottom are formed. Both sides of the leaf are hairy along the midrib.

The female inflorescences are 2 to 3.3 inches long with a diameter of 0.5 to 1.5 inches. The inflorescence axis is 0.5 to 1.5 inches long and hairy dense yellow-brown shaggy. The bracts are rarely from 0.7 usually from 1.1 to 1.3 inches long, 4 to 6 millimeters wide, broadly half-egg-shaped with a pointed end. The outer leaf margin is finely serrated without a basal lobe, the inner part has entire margins, single or double serrated with a rolled-up basal auricle . The leaves have three or four veins of the first order and are sparsely shaggy hairy on both sides of the reticulated veins. The fruits are about 2.5 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide, egg-shaped, ribbed, sparsely fluffy and densely shaggy hairy nuts . Carpinus microphylla flowers from May to June, the fruits ripen from July to August.

Occurrence and location requirements

The natural range is in the west of the Chinese Autonomous Region Guangxi in thickets at an altitude of about 2500 meters.

Systematics

Carpinus microphylla is a species of the hornbeam genus ( Carpinus ). This is in the family of birch plants of the subfamily (Betulaceae) coryloideae assigned (Coryloideae). The species was first scientifically described in 1985 by Wang Yusheng and JP Huang . The genus name Carpinus comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for the hornbeam. The specific epithet microphylla comes from the Greek and means "small-leaved".

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literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 4: Cycadaceae through Fagaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1999, ISBN 0-915279-70-3 , pp. 293 (English).
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Pei-chun Li, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Carpinus microphylla , in the Flora of China , Volume 4, p. 293
  2. ^ Carpinus. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed July 27, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 130
  4. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 385

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