Dendrotrophe platyphylla (Spreng.) N.H.Xia & M.G.Gilbert

Woody vines, to 2 m tall. Stems erect or twining, 4-ribbed at first, later terete, usually tuberculate and with longitudinally lengthened lenticels. Petiole flat, narrowly winged, short to almost absent; leaf blade varied in shape, usually elliptic-ovate or obovate-elliptic, 2-2.7 × 1.3-1.7(-2) cm, glossy adaxially, tuberculate on both surfaces, basal veins 7-9, usually inconspicuous abaxially, basal 1/2 abruptly narrowed and decurrent into petiole, apex obtuse. Male inflorescences fasciculate, 5-or 6-flowered. Female inflorescences of flowers solitary or 3 or 4 in fascicle; peduncle 3-6 mm; bracts broadly ovate. Flowers ovoid, ca. 1.8 mm, sessile; bracteoles usually several in involucre, elliptic. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers: staminodes sometimes present. Style very short; stigma shallowly 5-lobed. Drupe red or orange, ellipsoid to subglobose, ca. 4 mm in diam.; persistent perianth lobes triangular, apex incurved. Fr. Aug-Oct.

A tropical plant. It grows in broad-leaved forests between 2,000-3,700 m in southern China. In Yunnan.

Leaves used for tea.