Mitchella undulata Siebold & Zucc.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Mitchella

Characteristics

Plants with stems quadrate, to 30 cm, glabrous or subglabrous. Petiole 0.3-1.1 cm, glabrous or subglabrous; leaf blade drying papery, triangular-ovate or ovate, 0.2-2.1 × 0.2-1.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base truncate or cordulate to rounded, margins sometimes undulate, apex acute to rounded; secondary veins 2 or 3 pairs; stipules 1-1.5 mm. Flowers with peduncles 1-12 mm, glabrous. Calyx glabrous; ovary portion subglobose to turbinate, ca. 2 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes narrowly to broadly triangular, 0.5-1 mm. Corolla glabrous outside; tube 9-10 mm; lobes lanceolate to triangular, 4-5 mm, acute. Multiple fruit subglobose, 6-8 mm in diam., glabrous; pyrenes ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. autumn, fr. winter.
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A herb. The stems are square. It grows 30 cm tall. The leaves are oval or triangle shaped. They are 1-2 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The edges can be wavy. The fruit is a multiple fruit 6-8 mm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.1
Root system -
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in the understories of wet forests.
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Woody hillsides on sandy substrates.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 1-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-9

Usage

Uses wood
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
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Productivity -

Images

Mitchella undulata unspecified picture

Distribution

Mitchella undulata world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:756215-1
WFO ID wfo-0000244796
COL ID 43P8S
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Mitchella undulata Mitchella undulata f. minor Mitchella repens var. undulata Mitchella undulata var. minor