Tripterygium Hook.F.

Genus

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae

Characteristics

Scandent shrubs or sometimes semiwoody vines, glabrous or tomentose; branchlets sometimes 4-6-angled. Leaves alternate, serrate, stipulate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, thyrsoid. Flowers bisexual or unisexual (polygamous), 5-merous. Disk fleshy, cupuliform, 5-lobed, intrastaminal; anthers longitudinally dehiscent, introrse. Ovary 3-locular; ovules erect, 2 per locule. Samara 3-winged, chartaceous. Seed 1, trigonous.
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Climbers. Bark of twigs lenticellate, often warted. Inflorescences large, terminal thyrses leafy at the base. Ovules 2 per cell. In breaking the leaves no gutta-percha threads. Veins and nerves with well-developed tracheid sheath; Ca-oxalate crystals in the leaf parenchyma restricted to rows of cells of normal size adjacent to the tracheids of these sheaths.
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Images

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Distribution

Tripterygium world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6703-1
WFO ID wfo-4000039324
COL ID 647SG
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Synonyms

Tripterygium

Lower taxons

Tripterygium doianum Tripterygium hypoglaucum Tripterygium wilfordii Tripterygium regelii