形态描述

小乔木，树皮灰黄色，嫩枝无毛或有疏毛，冬芽苞约7片。叶纸质，椭圆形或卵状椭圆形，长6-10厘米，宽2-4厘米，先端渐尖，基部楔形，边缘有粗齿，侧脉7-10对，下面叶腋常有簇生毛丛，叶柄长1厘米。花单生，直径4-5厘米，花柄长4-8毫米；苞片长卵形，长2-2.5厘米，宽1-1.2厘米；萼片5，基部连生，长卵形，长1-2厘米，先端尖，基部有毛；花瓣阔卵形，长2.5-3厘米，基部连生，外面有绢毛；雄蕊有短的花丝管，被毛；子房有毛。蒴果卵圆形，先端尖，宽1.5-2厘米。种子长1厘米，有窄翅。花期6月。

分布地区

产四川东部、安徽、江西、浙江、湖北。

其它

引用出处：中国植物志

中国植物志英文版

Cercis chinensis f. alba S. C. Hsu; C. chinensis f. pubes-cens C. F. Wei; C. chinensis f. rosea P. S. Hsu; C. pauciflora H. L. Li. Shrubs, 2-5(-8) m tall. Bark and branchlets grayish white. Leaf blade greenish when young with only petiole slightly pur-ple, suborbicular or triangular-orbicular, 5-10 cm, ca. as long as wide or slightly longer than wide, papery, both surfaces usually glabrous, or abaxially puberulent on veins, base shallowly to deeply cordate, margin membranous, transparent when fresh, apex acute. Flowers purplish red, pink, or white, 1-1.3 cm, 2-10-clustered on old branches or especially on trunk; pedicel 3-9 mm; keel tinged with deep purple stripes. Ovary glabrous to densely puberulent; ovules 5-8. Legume greenish, becoming stramineous at maturity, compressed, narrowly oblong, 4-8 × 1-1.2 cm, dorsal and ventral suture equal or subequal, wing 1.5-2 mm, base long attenuate, apex acute or shortly acuminate, with slender and curved beak; stipe 2-4 mm. Seeds 2-6, blackish brown, shiny, broadly oblong, 5-6 × ca. 4 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 14*. ● Dense forests or limestone areas, commonly cultivated. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhe-jiang.----from “Flora of China”