Sabiaceae FAMILY

Meliosma parviflora

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Meliosma parviflora is a deciduous shrub or a small tree with spreading branches; it can grow up to 10 metres tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. , 1255 Title Revision of Meliosma (Sabiaceae), section Lorenzanea excepted, Living and Fossil, Geography and Phylogeny Publication Blumea Vol 19, No. 3, 1971 , pp 355-529 Author C.F. Van Beusekom Publisher Year 1971 ISBN Description ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a source of wood.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeE. Asia - central southern China (Henan, western Hubei, southern Jiangsu, Sichuan, Xizang, northern Zhejiang)

HabitatJungles, streamsides in forests; at elevations from 100 - 1,200 metres[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. Open woods or thickets, often by roadsides, also on river-banks or along streams