四萼獼猴桃

Deciduous climbing shrubs; flowering shoots raddish-brown, glabrescent, withprominent lenticels, the vary young branchlets sometimes puberulous; pith brown,lamellate. Leaves chartaceous, long ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, long-acuminate at the apex, rounded, truncate or narrow cuneate-rounded at the base,unequal, serrulate at margins, nearly concolorous on both surfaces, the uppersurface glabrous, whitish tufts in the vein axils or sparsely hispid from lowermidrib to petiole beneath, lateral veins about 6-8 per side; petioles 1.5-3.5 cm.long, raddish. Inflorescences in axillary cymes, 1-3 flowered; flowers white tolight reddish-white, pedicels slender, glabrescent; sepals 4, rarely 5, long-ovate,5-7 mm. long, glabrous on both surfaces, tomentose at the margins; petals 4, rarely 5, obovate or oblong, 7-10 mm. long; ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid, about 1.5-2 cm. long, orange-yellow, glabrous, unspotted, with persistent calyx.

ILAN：Taipingshan, C.I.Peng 7872(HAST).

China. Taiwan, newly found in forest of northern part at medium to highaltitudes.