Berchemia hispida (Tsai & Feng) Y.L.Chen & P.K.Chou

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae > Berchemia

Characteristics

Shrubs climbing. Young branches yellow-green, smooth, glabrous. Petiole 1.5-4 cm, glabrous; leaf blade adaxially green, turning dark brown when dry, ovate to elliptic, 6-10 × 3.5-6.5 cm, papery to subleathery, abaxially densely pubescent or pubescent on veins or in vein axils, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 12-17 pairs, conspicuously prominent abaxially, impressed adaxially, base rounded, rarely truncate, apex acute and minutely mucronate. Inflorescences to 18 cm; rachis hispid or glabrous; branches ca. 7 cm. Flowers yellow-green, glabrous, in terminal, broad cymose panicles. Pedicel 2-3 mm, glabrous. Drupe purple-red at maturity, small, 6-8 mm, 3-4 mm in diam., apex mucronulate, base with persistent cup-shaped disk; fruiting pedicel 2-3 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. May-Jun of following year.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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Distribution

Berchemia hispida world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:716691-1
WFO ID wfo-0000564148
COL ID LKGM
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Synonyms

Berchemia hispida Berchemia hispida var. glabrata Berchemia hypochrysa var. hispida Berchemia hispida var. hispida