Illicium dunnianum is a species of flowering plant in the family Schisandraceae. It is a shrub with leathery leaves and pink to red tepals. The species is native to south and south-east China.
Illicium dunnianum was described in 1905, and is named after Stephen Troyte Dunn.
Taxonomy The species was described by William James Tutcher in 1905.
Distribution Illicium dunnianum is native to the subtropical biome of south-east and south-central China (southern Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, southern and south-western Guizhou, and western Hunan). It grows along riverbanks and ravines, and on wet slopes, at elevations of .
Description Illicium dunnianum is a shrub that grows high. The leaves are narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, thinly leathery, long, and wide. The leaves are in clusters of three to eight, and grow on stems.
The flower stems are long. The flowers have twelve to twenty tepals, which are pink, red, or purplish red, and papery to slightly fleshy. The largest tepals are long, wide, and elliptic to suborbicular. The flowers have nineteen to twenty-four stamens, and eight to thirteen carpels. The plant flowers from March to July and October to November.
The fruits grow on long stems. The seeds are long, and wide. The plant fruits from July to October.
Nomenclature Illicium dunnianum is named after Stephen Troyte Dunn.
In Chinese, the species is known as () or ().
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