葎叶蛇葡萄 lü ye she pu tao

Ampelopsis heterophylla (Thunberg) Siebold & Zuccarini var. bungei Planchon; A. heterophylla var. humulifolia (Bunge) Merrill; Cissus davidiana Carrière; C. humulifolia (Bunge) Regel; Vitis davidiana (Carrière) N. E. Brown; V. heterophylla Thunberg var. humulifolia (Bunge) Hooker.

Branchlets terete, with longitudinal ridges, glabrous; tendrils bifurcate. Leaves simple, 3-5-lobed or cleft, rarely mixed with undivided leaves; stipules caducous; petiole 3-5 cm, glabrous or sparsely pilose; leaf blade cordate or roughly so with 5 angles, 6-12 × 5-10 cm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely pilose on veins, base cordate, notch rounded, margin with large, sharp teeth, apex acuminate. Polychasium leaf-opposed; peduncle 3-6 cm, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Pedicel 2-3 mm, appressed pubescent. Buds oval, 1.5-2 mm, apex rounded. Calyx glabrous. Petals elliptic, 1.3-1.8 mm, glabrous. Anthers oval. Lower part of ovary adnate to disk; stigma unexpanded. Berry globose, 6-10 mm in diam., 2-4-seeded. Seeds obovoid. Fl. May-Jul, fr. May-Sep.

● Forests, shrublands; 400-1100 m. Hebei, Henan, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi.