Salacia aurantiaca C.Y.Wu ex S.Y.Bao

Species

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Characteristics

Climbing shrubs; branches slender, flat when young, becoming cylindric, brown, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate. Petiole ca. 5 mm, grooved; leaf blade long elliptic, 9-14 × 4-6 cm, papery, shiny, base obtuse, margin sparsely denticulate to serrulate, apex acuminate; midvein prominent on both surfaces, lateral veins tenuous, reticulate veins horizontally spreading, conspicuous abaxially. Flowers not seen. Berry orange, 2-3 cm in diam., exocarp thinly leathery when dry, glabrous, 4-seeded. Seeds ca. 2 × 1.2 cm, angular. Fr. Nov.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
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Images

Salacia aurantiaca unspecified picture

Distribution

Salacia aurantiaca world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:898633-1
WFO ID wfo-0001251353
COL ID 4TZYF
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Synonyms

Salacia aurantiaca