Salacia amplifolia Merr. ex Chun & F.C.How

Species

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Characteristics

Climbing or erect shrubs, to 4 m tall; branchlets green-yellow, glabrous. Petiole strong and robust, 1-1.5 cm, canaliculate; leaf blade narrowly or broadly elliptic, 13-23 × (4-)6-8 cm, thickly papery, abaxially light yellow when dry, inconspicuously papillate, adaxially green-yellow, shiny, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin weakly crimped, subentire or repando-crenulate, rarely serrulate, apex shortly acuminate to subacute; lateral veins 9-10 pairs, abaxially prominent, adaxially plane, reticulate veins conspicuous. Fascicles axillary or extra-axillary, several flowered; pedicel 8-9 mm, tenuous, base squamate; squamellae serrate, imbricate. Flowers green-white or light yellow; sepals broadly ovate, ca. 1.4 mm, apex subacute to obtuse, margin ciliolate; petals subrounded, ca. 2.2 mm, broadly spreading. Disk cupular, brown-red when fresh, subpentagonous, flexing outward. Anthers transversely dehiscent. Ovary triangular; ovules 4 per locule, 2-columned; style very short. Fruit globose, yellow or red when ripe, up to 4.5 cm in diam., 4-or 5-seeded. Seeds ca. 3 × 1.6-2 cm, black when dry. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Aug-Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 4.0
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Salacia amplifolia world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:431155-1
WFO ID wfo-0001251352
COL ID 4TZY3
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Synonyms

Salacia amplifolia