Alangium chinense (Lour.) Harms

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Alangium chinense

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

Alangium chinense

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

Alangium chinense

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

Alangium chinense

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

Alangium chinense

Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH

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Synonyms: Alangium begoniifolium (Roxb.) Baill.
Marlea begoniifolia Roxb.
Stylidium chinense Lour.
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Slender tree. Leaves alternate, variously ovate, conspicuously 4-5 veined from the markedly asymmetric base. Young leaves often palmately lobed. Flowers in small axillary clusters, creamy-white to pale yellow with golden hairs., sweetly scented. Fruit fleshy, flattened, crowned with the remains of the old calyx.
Type location:
Indo China
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: chinense: of China
Habitat: In moist evergreen forest.
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:Nov - Mar
Worldwide distribution: Bioko, Cameroon, DRC, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Also in tropical Asia from India to China,Japan and Indochina, Java and the Sunda Islands.
FZ divisions: MS
Growth form(s): Tree.
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
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Images last updated: Thursday 30 June 2016
Literature:

Bamps, P. & Geerinck, D. (2005). Alangiaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Jardin Botanique National de Belgique Pages 1 - 4. (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 56. (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 724. (Includes a picture).

Cannon, J.F.M. (1978). Alangiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 633 - 635. (Includes a picture).

Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 18.

Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & White, F. (1990). New and noteworthy plants from the evergreen forests of Malawi Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 60(1/2) Page 75.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 265.

Fischer, E. & Killmann, D. (2008). Illustrated Field guide to the Plants of Nyungwe National Park Rwanda. University of Koblenz-Landau. Pages 326 - 327. (Includes a picture).

Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 161.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 15.

Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 89.

Troupin, G. (1983). Alangiaceae Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume II Pages 548 - 549. (Includes a picture).

White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 120 - 121. (Includes a picture).


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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2007-25

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2025). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Alangium chinense.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143370, retrieved 14 July 2025

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