Schisandra glabra (Brickell) Rehder

Bay starvine (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Austrobaileyales > Schisandraceae > Schisandra

Characteristics

Plants sprawling or twining over shrubs and trees, to 20 m or more. Bark gray-brown, flaking; pith tan, becoming dark brown, continuous; young twigs pale brown and smooth, older stems to 4 cm diam. Leaves: petiole slender, 1-7 cm. Leaf blade ovate-elliptic to cordate, 2-13 × 1-8 cm (larger on vigorous shoots), thin, margins entire to remotely dentate, glabrous. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate on same plant; peduncle slender, 2.5-5 cm; outer tepals greenish white, inner tepals rose to red, broadly ovate, 3-9 × 2-5 mm. Staminate flowers: anthers embedded in sessile 5-sided disc. Pistillate flowers: pistils 6-12, reddish. Berries red, globose to ellipsoid, 4-8 × 5-15 mm; receptacle 4-7 cm. Seeds 1-3, red-brown, reniform, 4-4.5 × 5-5.5 mm, smooth to slightly rugose. 2 n = 28.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 4-11

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Images

Schisandra glabra unspecified picture

Distribution

Schisandra glabra world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229251-2
WFO ID wfo-0000495118
COL ID 4V8J7
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Stellandria glabra Schisandra glabra Schisandra coccinea