闊葉獼猴桃

Heptaca ? latifolia Gardn. & Champ.in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1:243. 1849. Kadsura pubescens Miq., F1. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 620. 1862; Kurz in Journ. Asiat Soc. Bent. 45(2):119. 1876. Actiniaia cliampioni Benth., F1. Hongk. 26. 1861; Matsum. & Hayata in Journ Coll. Sci. UniV. Tokyo 22:47. 1906(Enum.P1.Form.); Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Univ. Tokyo 20(1):44. 1911 (Mat.F1.Form.), Icon. P1. Form. 1:88. 1911. Actinidia miquelii King in Journ. Asiat Soc. Beng. 59(2):196. 1896; nomen in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 5:145. Pl. 176. 1896. Actinidia gnaphalocarpa Hayata Icon. Pl. Form. 9:7. 1920.

Climbing shrub to 7 m.; branches reddish brown, with pale oblong to lanceolate lenticels, rusty tomentose on young branchlets; pith solid, whitish, becoming hollow in the center when old. Leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate when young, broadly ovate or suborbicular when old, about 5.5-11 cm. long and 3-9 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded to reniform-cordate at the base, subentire with remote minute callose teeth, the upper surface glabrate or puberulous ,the lower covered by a pale appressed stellate tomentum, lateral veins about 6-7 per side; petioles 2-4 cm. long, tomentose. Inflorescences in axillary or lateral, 10-flowered or more, 2-3 times-branched cymes, densely rusty stellate-tomentose; peduncles 1.5-8 cm. long, forked at top; pedicels 0.5-1.5 cm. long, often elongating and enlarging in fruit; bracts minute, linear; flowers brownish-yellow; sepals 5, ovate,about 4-5 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad; petals 5, about 6-8 cm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, obtuse to rounded, pubescent without; ovary globose, about 2 mm. long, densely pilose. styles 2-3 mm. long, slender. Fruit subglobose to ovoid, 3-4 cm. long and 2-3 cm. across, brown, spotted, glabrous when mature or pubescent at the base and top only.

TAITUNG:Tai-ma-li, J. C. Wang et al. 8762(HAST); TAOYOUN: Lalashan, W. P. Leu 2045(HAST); TAICHUNG: Lileng forest road, M. Y. Shen 602(TESRI). NANTOU: Lian-hwa-chyr, S. Y. Lu 16482(TAIF); CHIAYI: Suisha, Hayata 16697 (TAIF; isotype of A. gnaphalocarpa).

Western and southern China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia. Taiwan, in thickets at altitudes of 500-1,500 m.