Rhamnus dumetorum C.K.Schneid.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae > Rhamnus

Characteristics

Shrubs dioecious, 3-5 m tall, unarmed. Branchlets pale gray-brown, scabrous or shiny. Leaves opposite or subopposite, or fascicled on short shoots; stipules lanceolate, shorter than or nearly equaling petiole; petiole 2-7 mm, puberulent; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially green, elliptic, rarely obovate, oblanceolate-elliptic, or oblong, 2.5-9 × 1-3.5 cm, abaxially sparsely or clustered hairy on veins and vein axils, rarely glabrous, or densely pubescent on veins, adaxially sparsely puberulent, lateral veins 4 or 5(or 6) pairs, prominent abaxially, slightly impressed adaxially, abaxially often with shallow areola in vein axils, base cuneate, margin inconspicuously undulate or crenulate, or crenate-serrate, apex acute or acuminate, rarely subrounded. Flowers unisexual, 4-merous. Pedicels 2-4 mm. Petals present. Male flowers few. Female flowers few-to 10-fascicled at apices of short shoots, puberulent; style 2-fid or cleft to half. Drupe globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., with persistent calyx tube at base, with 1 or 2 stones; fruiting pedicel 3-6 mm, sparsely puberulent. Seeds black or purple-black, abaxially with short furrow at base, upper part fissured. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Oct.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 3.0 - 5.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Rhamnus dumetorum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:718317-1
WFO ID wfo-0001131472
COL ID 4S22D
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Synonyms

Rhamnus dumetorum Rhamnus dumetorum var. dumetorum