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3. Ampelopsis Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. 1803.

蛇葡萄属 she pu tao shu

Authors: Prof. Zhiduan Chen & Jun Wen

Lianas, woody, hermaphroditic or polygamo-monoecious. Tendrils 2- or 3-branched. Leaves simple, 1- or 2-pinnately or palmately compound. Inflorescence a corymbose cyme, leaf-opposed or pseudoterminal, often at tips of tendrils. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx saucer-shaped. Petals 5, free. Disk well developed, margin undulately lobed. Stamens 5. Style conspicuous; stigma inconspicuously expanded. Berry spherical, 1-4-seeded. Seed obovoid, base rostrate, apex rounded; cross-section of endosperm M-shaped.

About 30 species: Asia, Central and North America, with most species in E Asia and two species in SW Asia; 17 species (13 endemic) in China.


1 Leaves simple, undivided or 3-5-divided, but not deeply so to base   (2)
+ Leaves palmately or pinnately compound   (13)
       
2 (1) Branchlets, petioles, and leaf blade glabrous or abaxially with tufts of hairs limited to vein axils   (3)
+ Branchlets, petioles, and leaf blade abaxially pubescent with soft hairs or villous   (7)
       
3 (2) Leaves conspicuously 3-5-divided   (4)
+ Leaves undivided or slightly 3-5-cleft   (5)
       
4 (3) Leaves with 3-5 broad lobes (lobed up to middle), notch obtuse or acute.   6 A. humulifolia
+ Leaves with 3-5 deep lobes, notch rounded.   7 A. acerifolia
       
5 (3) Leaf margin irregularly toothed, usually with large, elliptic, triangular, or narrowly triangular teeth (to 1 cm).   3 A. acutidentata
+ Leaf margin with shallow, broadly triangular teeth   (6)
       
6 (5) Leaf abaxially pale green, upper two lobes short or inconspicuous.   1 A. bodinieri
+ Leaf abaxially green, upper two lobes triangular, conspicuous, and slightly extending outward.   2 A. glandulosa
       
7 (2) Leaves 3-5-divided, lobed conspicuously to middle, rarely only slightly lobed or undivided   (8)
+ Leaves undivided or slightly 3-5-cleft   (10)
       
8 (7) Pedicels usually 1-1.5 mm, rarely to 2 mm.   2 A. glandulosa
+ Pedicels 2-3 mm   (9)
       
9 (8) Leaves elliptic-ovate, usually 5-divided, abaxially with dense grayish hairs.   1 A. bodinieri
+ Leaves elliptical-pentangular or cordate-pentangular, usually 3-divided with lobes to middle, abaxially with short hairs.   6 A. humulifolia
       
10 (7) Leaves pentangular-ovate or cordate, 3-5-lobed, margin with large, sharp teeth.   2 A. glandulosa
+ Leaves ovate or cordate, margin with rounded teeth   (11)
       
11 (10) Blades undivided, base conspicuously cordate, margin with regular teeth, both surfaces pubescent.   2 A. glandulosa
+ Blades slightly 3-5-divided, margin with irregular teeth   (12)
       
12 (11) Upper part of leaves irregularly divided, leaves with dense grayish appressed hairs.   4 A. mollifolia
+ Upper part of leaves conspicuously 3-lobed, leaves densely scabrous.   5 A. tomentosa
       
13 (1) Leaves 3-7-palmate   (14)
+ Leaves pinnate to bipinnate   (17)
       
14 (13) Branchlets, petioles, or leaf blade abaxially sparsely pubescent; leaves 3- or 5-foliolate   (15)
+ Branchlets, petioles, and leaf blade abaxially glabrous; leaves 3-5-foliolate   (16)
       
15 (14) Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets undivided, or only base of lateral leaflets divided.   8 A. delavayana
+ Leaves 5-foliolate, leaflets pinnatifidly divided, or margin with coarse teeth.   9 A. aconitifolia
       
16 (14) Leaflets pinnatipartite, lower half attenuate into wings.   10 A. japonica
+ Leaflets toothed or lobed at margin, not pinnatipartite.   8 A. delavayana
       
17 (13) Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescences glabrous   (18)
+ Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence rachises pubescent   (21)
       
18 (17) Leaves green on both surfaces, leaflet margin with large, conspicuous teeth   (19)
+ Leaves abaxially strongly glaucous, leaflet margin entire or with fine teeth   (20)
       
19 (18) Tendril trifurcate; leaflets 4-12 × 2-6 cm.   11 A. megalophylla
+ Tendril bifurcate; leaflets 2-5 × 1-2.5 cm.   17 A. grossedentata
       
20 (18) Leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, blades 7-15 × 3-7 cm.   14 A. chaffanjonii
+ Leaflets usually 4-6 pairs, blades 2.5-6 × 1-3.5 cm.   16 A. hypoglauca
       
21 (17) Branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence rachises pubescent with short gray hairs; branchlets terete   (22)
+ Branchlets, petioles, rachises, pedicels, and leaflets abaxially ferruginous pilose; branchlets conspicuously 4-6-ridged   (23)
       
22 (21) Dried leaflets light green, margin coarsely toothed, central leaflet ovate-elliptic.   11 A. megalophylla
+ Dried leaflets abaxially yellowish brown, margin ± undulate, central leaflet obovate or ovate.   13 A. cantoniensis
       
23 (21) Leaflets 3.5-14 × 2-6.5 cm, margin 5-15-toothed, abaxially densely ferruginous pilose; berries 8-15 mm in diam.   12 A. rubifolia
+ Leaflets 3-6 × 0.5-3 cm, margin entire or with 1 to several inconspicuous teeth, midvein abaxially sparsely pilose; berries 5-7 mm in diam.   15 A. gongshanensis

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