''Sycopsis'' is a genus of plants in the family

Hamamelidaceae Hamamelidaceae, commonly referred to as the witch-hazel family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales. The clade consists of shrubs and small trees positioned within the woody clade of the core Saxifragales. An earlier system ...

native to southern central

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Flora of China via eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=131962 ccessed 10/03/21/ref>Plants of the World Online. Available at: http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:19617-1 ccessed 10/03/21/ref>RHS Plants. Available at: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/17873/Sycopsis-sinensis/Details ccessed 10/03/21/ref> and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

Characteristics

''Sycopsis'' are evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubs or small trees. Their leaves are leathery and their flowers have no petals.

Species

The genus ''Sycopsis'' contains two species: ''

Sycopsis sinensis ''Sycopsis'' is a genus of plants in the family Hamamelidaceae native to southern central ChinaFlora of China via eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=131962 ccessed 10/03/21/ref>Plants of the World On ...

'' and ''

Sycopsis triplinerva ''Sycopsis'' is a genus of plants in the family Hamamelidaceae native to southern central ChinaFlora of China via eFloras. Available at: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=131962 ccessed 10/03/21/ref>Plants of the World On ...

''.

Etymology and naming

''Sycopsis'' is derived from

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

and means ‘fig-resembler’ because the person who named the genus, Daniel Oliver, thought its appearance resembled a shrubby ''

Ficus ''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending in ...

''.Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. (hardback), (paperback). p 368 The

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

vernacular name for this genus is 水丝梨属 (Shuǐ sī lí shǔ).

References

Flora of China Flora of Taiwan Endemic flora of China Hamamelidaceae Saxifragales genera {{Saxifragales-stub