Pericampylus glaucus (Lam.) Merr.

Woody climber. Young stems yellowish-tomen-tose, older stems glabrescent, longitudinally ridged. Leaves with yellowish-tomentose petioles 3-7 cm; lamina broadly triangular-ovate, margin usually broadly and shallowly crenate, apex apiculate, usually broadly rounded, or obtuse, sometimes acute, base shallowly cordate or truncate, sometimes obtuse, 5-10 cm long and broad; palmately 5-nerved, lower surface tomentose or softly pubescent, upper surface sparsely pubescent; margin shallowly crenate; papyraceous. Inflorescences yellowish-tomen-tose, 2-4 cm long. Male flowers white or yellow with pedicels c. 1 mm; sepals 9, hairy outside, outer 3 narrow, minute c. 0.5 mm long, middle 3 oblanceolate, inner 3 obovate, all 1 mm long; petals 6, obcuneate, 0.5 mm long, glabrous; stamens 6, 0.75 mm long. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male flowers; staminodes 6, filamentose; carpels 0.5 mm long; stigma bifid recurved. Drupe purple to black, glabrous; endocarp rotund in outline, 5 mm ø, dorsally bearing 2 rows of c. 15 pointed projections, each of which is linked by a ridge to a laterally pointing projection, the latter being arranged in 2 lateral rows.

Locally common in primary and secondary forest, in particular in clearings, and thickets; at elevations up to 1,700 metres. Forests, forest margins, shrublands in China.

Uses. Stems used for tying and basketry. Sap used as an eye medicine.

Can be grown by seedlings.