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7. Ampelocissus Planchon, Vigne Amér. Vitic. Eur. 8: 371. 1884.
酸蔹藤属 suan lian teng shu
Authors: Hui Ren & Jun Wen
Botria Loureiro.
Climbers, woody or herblike, hermaphroditic or polygamo-dioecious. Tendrils unbranched or bifurcate. Leaves simple or compound. Inflorescence a panicle, compound dichasium, or thyrse, leaf-opposed and tendril-bearing. Petals 4 or 5, spreading, free. Stamens 4 or 5. Disk well developed, angular, adnate to ovary, often 5-10-grooved. Style usually short and conical, with ca. 10 ridges; stigma inconspicuously expanded. Berry spheroid or elliptic, 1-4-seeded. Seeds obovoid, suborbicular, or elliptic-oblong, raphe linear, chalazal knot somewhat spatulate in shallow depression; endosperm T-shaped in cross-section. 2n = 40.
About 90 species: tropical Africa, Asia, Central America, and Oceania; five species (two endemic) in China.
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Leaves 3-foliolate |
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Leaves simple |
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Leaflets abaxially densely white woolly, chalazal knot rounded or broadly elliptic. |
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4 A. artemisiifolia |
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Leaflets abaxially pilose, chalazal knot narrowly elliptic. |
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5 A. butoensis |
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Branchlets and petioles tomentose and with purple bristles. |
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3 A. hoabinhensis |
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Branchlets and petioles glabrous or tomentose, but not hispid |
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Leaves cordate-oval, glabrous. |
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1 A. sikkimensis |
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Leaves broadly ovate, adaxially densely pubescent, abaxially pilose, with woolly hairs on veins. |
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2 A. xizangensis |
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Lower Taxa
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