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Kadsura coccinea (Lem.) A.C.Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Austrobaileyales > Schisandraceae > Kadsura

Characteristics

Plants glabrous throughout. Petiole 0.9-3(-4.1) cm; leaf blade elliptic to rarely ovate, 7-19 × 2.5-10 cm, papery to leathery, secondary veins 3-8(-12) on each side of midvein, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or rarely truncate, margin entire or rarely denticulate, apex acute, shortly acuminate, or rarely obtuse. Flower peduncle 0.4-2(-3.1) cm (staminate), 0.7-3.8 cm (pistillate). Tepals 8-16(-24), white, red, purplish red, or occasionally yellowish, largest (0.8-)1.2-2.3 × 0.6-1.2(-1.5) cm. Staminate flowers: stamens 10-50; staminodes generally present at apex of torus. Pistillate flowers: carpels 20-68. Fruit peduncle 2.6-4.9 cm; apocarps red to purplish red, 1.4-2.4 × 0.7-1.7 cm. Seeds 1 or 2 per apocarp, pyriform, 1-1.8 × 0.7-1.1 cm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Oct-Dec.
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A vine. It is a twining climber. The leaf stalks can be 3 cm long. The leaf blade is narrowly oval and 7-19 cm long by 3-10 cm wide. They are papery to leathery. The flower stalk is 2 cm long. Flowers are separately male and female. The fruit stalk is up to 5 cm long. The fruit are red or purple. They are about 2 cm long by 1 cm wide. The seeds are pear shaped and there are 1 or 2 seeds in each fruit section.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
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Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Mature height (meter) 4.0 - 8.0
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OctNovDec
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Found in a wide variety of habitats, often rather disturbed, including hillside slopes and ravines, semi-open shrubland and forests; usually at elevations from 400-1,400 metres, but sometimes descending to 200 metres or ascending to 1,900 metres.
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A tropical plant. In Yunnan in China it grows between 1,000-1,800 m above sea level. It grows in monsoon rainforest. It grows in subtropical broad-leaved evergreen forest. In Sichuan.
Forests at elevations of 1500-2000 metres in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The ripe fruit are eaten raw.
Uses medicinal
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Aphrodisiac (unspecified), Pectoral (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Distribution

Kadsura coccinea world distribution map, present in China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:554572-1
WFO ID wfo-0000357302
COL ID 3QXWG
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Kadsura coccinea Kadsura calophylla Kadsura hainanensis Kadsura ananosma Kadsura cavaleriei Schisandra hanceana Cosbaea coccinea Kadsura chinensis Kadsura coccinea var. sichuanensis Kadsura chinensis var. annamensis Kadsura coccinea var. annamensis Kadsura coccinea var. coccinea
WorldFloraDB 2024