管花鹿药 guan hua lu yao

Oligobotrya henryi Baker, Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 16: t. 1537. 1886; O. henryi var. violacea C. H. Wright; O. limprichtii Lingelsheim ex H. Limpricht; Smilacina henryi (Baker) H. Hara.

Plants 50--80 cm tall. Rhizome submoniliform, 1--2 cm thick. Stem hispidulous or hirsutulous distally, rarely glabrescent. Leaves 5--8, subsessile or shortly petiolate; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, or oblong, 9--22 × 3.5--11 cm, pubescent or glabrescent. Inflorescence a raceme, sometimes a panicle, 3--7(--17) cm; rachis pubescent. Flowers solitary; pedicel 1.5--5 mm, pubescent. Perianth yellowish green to white, funnelform; segments connate except distally, forming a long tube, tube 6--10 mm, lobes spreading, 2--3 × 1.5--2 mm. Stamens short. Style 2--3 mm, slightly longer than ovary; stigma 3-lobed. Berries red at maturity, 7--9 mm in diam., 2--4-seeded. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Aug--Oct. 2 n = 36*.

Forests, thickets, moist places along streams; 1300--4000 m. Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [N Myanmar, Vietnam].