Berchemia hirtella Tsai & Feng

Species

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Characteristics

Shrubs scandent. Branchlets spreading, yellow-green, sparsely pubescent; old branches turning brown, glabrescent. Stipules ovate, ciliate, caducous; petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade abaxially gray-yellow, adaxially dark brown when dry, ovate-elliptic or oblong, 6.5-10 × 4-6 cm, papery, adaxially glabrous or white powdery, densely pubescent or glabrous, or sparsely pubescent on veins, or clustered hairy in vein axils, lateral veins 11-13 pairs, prominent on both surfaces, base cordate or subrounded, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescences rather large, to 20 × 7 cm; rachis pubescent. Flowers usually in broad cymose panicles at ends of lateral branches. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm, glabrous or subglabrous. Drupe purple-red at maturity, cylindric-ellipsoid, 1.1-1.4 cm, 5-6 mm in diam., with persistent cup-shaped disk at base; fruiting pedicel 1.2-2 cm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Feb-May of following year.
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A shrub. It lies over. The branches are spreading. The leaves are grey to yellow underneath. The leaves are narrowly oval and 7-10 cm long by 4-6 cm wide. The flowers are in groups at the ends of side branches. The fruit is purple to red when mature. It is oval and 11-14 mm long by 5-6 mm wide. There is a persistent cup at the base.
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows in forests and thickets in valleys between 400-1,500 m above sea level. It grows in Yunnan in China.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

The fruit are eaten fresh. The young leaves are used for making tea drinks.
Uses food tea
Edible fruits leaves
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Distribution

Berchemia hirtella world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:716690-1
WFO ID wfo-0000564146
COL ID LKGL
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Synonyms

Berchemia hirtella Berchemia hirtella var. glabrescens Berchemia hirtella var. hirtella