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Dendrocnide kotoensis (Hayata ex Yamamoto) Shih & Yang (紅頭咬人狗)

Introduction
Scientific Name:Dendrocnide kotoensis (Hayata ex Yamamoto) Shih & Yang
Family:Urticaceae
life form:Tree
Other:Bark smooth, glabrous, lenticels indistinct

 

Habitats and Distribution
Taiwan, distributed in Lanyu Island

 

Life Form
Leaves
Leaves simple, alternate, ovate, ovate-oblong to obovate-oblong, 40 cm long, 21 cm broad, nearly glabrous; petioles 15 cm long.


Flowers

Inflorescences paniculate, with podium, branches whitish green; female flowers bracts triangular, without veins.

 

Fruit
Achenes compressed, asymmetrically ellipsoid to ovoid.

 

Microcharacteristic

Palynology

 
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