Parrotia persica (DC.) C. A. Mey. Hammamelidaceae

Synonyms

Hammamelis persica DC.

Local Names

Azerbaijan: Dəmirağacı; English: Persian ironwood tree.

Botany and Ecology

Tree. Branches angular, often connate when adult, covered with stellate pubescence when young. Leaves short-petioled, cuneate at base or rounded-ovate to obovate, slightly oblique, entire in lower part, emarginately and coarsely dentate in upper part, glabrous above, slightly pubescent with sparse, stellate hairs. Flowers appearing before leaves in 2- or 3- flowered fascicles or heads, short-pediceled; bracts membranous, large, ovate-oval, covered on the outside with dark rufous-brown tomentum, glabrous inside; calyx broadly campanulate, with 6 or 7 remote, obtuse, foliiform sepals, ciliate at the apex; tube covered with stellate hairs; filaments long; anthers acuminate, brightly colored. Capsule woody, rounded-oval, the valves elongate-acuminate, reflexed, much longer than calyx; seed ovoid, acute, with 2 scars at base, pale yellow. It grows most frequently in low...