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1. Hemsleya Cogniaux ex F. B. Forbes & Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 23: 490. 1888.

雪胆属 xue dan shu

Authors: Anmin Lu & Charles Jeffrey

Herbs, perennial, scandent. Roots enlarged, oblate or rarely cylindric. Stem and branches slender or moderately robust. Tendrils filiform, 2-fid. Leaves pedately (3-)5-9(-11)-foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblong-lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, membranous or papery. Plants dioecious. Inflorescence cymose-racemose to paniculate, axillary. Male flowers: calyx tube short; segments ovate to ovate-lanceolate, ascending, spreading, rotate, recurved, or reflexed; corolla pale yellow, yellow-green, or orange-red, rotate, discoid, turbinate, bowl-shaped, inverted bowl-shaped, Chinese lanternlike, or umbelliform; segments ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovoid, herbaceous or subsucculent; stamens 5; filaments exserted. Female flowers: calyx and corolla usually as in male flowers, sometimes slightly larger; ovary subglobose or conical, smooth or muriculate; styles 3; stigmas 2-lobed. Fruit globose, cylindric, or tubular-cylindric, longitudinally 9- or 10-striate or 9- or 10-angular, almost smooth or verrucose. Seeds elliptic or broadly ovate, usually with woody wings, sometimes wings membranous or absent.

About 27 species: subtropical or tropical Asia; 25 species (21 endemic) in China.


1 Roots without tuber; seeds with broad membranous wing.   1 H. graciliflora
+ Roots with tuber (except possibly for H. heterosperma); seeds without wing or with thin woody wing   (2)
       
2 (1) Flower smaller, corolla 3-7 mm in diam   (3)
+ Flower larger, corolla 8-15 mm in diam   (4)
       
3 (2) Corolla bowl-shaped, 5-7 mm in diam.; petals fleshy; fruit conical to cylindric, 2.4-3.5 cm × 8-10 mm; seeds oblong-elliptic to ovate, with a corky wing.   2 H. delavayi
+ Corolla laxly patelliform, 3-5 mm in diam.; petals membranous-herbaceous; fruit obconic, 2-4 cm × 12-15 mm; seeds lenticular, ± isodiametric, unwinged.   3 H. kunmingensis
       
4 (2) Corolla segments spreading, explanate, or ascending, corolla bowl-shaped or rotate   (5)
+ Corolla segments reflexed or revolute, corolla umbelliform or ± globose   (12)
       
5 (4) Seeds strongly biconvex, almost without wing, margin slightly broad, 1-1.3(-2) mm; fruit conical to terete-elliptic   (6)
+ Seeds oblong, lenticular, or strongly biconvex, margin narrower, less than 1 mm in diam.; fruit globose, narrowly elliptic, or narrowly conical   (8)
       
6 (5) Corolla 15-20 cm, yellow-green, segments broadly ovate.   6 H. panlongqi
+ Corolla 10-13 cm, green or pale green, segments strap-shaped; fruit conical or terete-conical   (7)
       
7 (6) Corolla segments ascending; flower buds obtuse at apex.   4 H. macrocarpa
+ Corolla segments spreading or reflexed; flower buds acute at apex.   5 H. mitrata
       
8 (5) Seeds oblong, with thin corky wing; fruit narrowly elliptic to narrowly conical.   7 H. dipterygia
+ Seeds biconvex, without wing; fruit globose or conical   (9)
       
9 (8) Seeds lenticular; corolla bowl-shaped.   11 H. sphaerocarpa
+ Seeds ovate to orbicular; corolla rotate   (10)
       
10 (9) Fruit globose, pedicel with an articulation.   8 H. amabilis
+ Fruit conical or cylindric, pedicel without an articulation   (11)
       
11 (10) Fruit apex with distinct style; corolla segments lanceolate.   9 H. heterosperma
+ Fruit apex without distinct style; corolla segments ovate-orbicular.   10 H. lijiangensis
       
12 (4) Seed margin narrower; corolla red-brown or pale red-brown, base often dark red-brown   (13)
+ Seed margin smooth; corolla pale yellow or yellow-green   (18)
       
13 (12) Leaflets 9-11; corolla bowl-shaped, 8-10 mm in diam.   25 H. endecaphylla
+ Leaflets (3-)5-9   (14)
       
14 (13) Corolla Chinese lanternlike   (15)
+ Corolla bowl-shaped (H. dulongjiangensis corolla unknown)   (16)
       
15 (14) Fruit elliptic; corolla 10-15 mm in diam.   20 H. chinensis
+ Fruit ovoid to globose; corolla 20-25 mm in diam.   21 H. gigantha
       
16 (14) Fruit elliptic, 5-8 cm; seed margin erose.   22 H. dolichocarpa
+ Fruit ovoid to globose, 3-4 cm   (17)
       
17 (16) Seed margin smooth; fruiting pedicel with an articulation; leaflets 5-7, elliptic-lanceolate.   23 H. macrosperma
+ Seeds margin erose; fruiting pedicel without an articulation; leaflets 3-5, rhombic.   24 H. dulongjiangensis
       
18 (12) Fruit globose or subglobose   (19)
+ Fruit conical or elliptic to claviform-elliptic   (21)
       
19 (18) Corolla umbelliform, 10-12 mm in diam.; fruiting pedicel with an articulation.   12 H. panacis-scandens
+ Corolla Chinese lanternlike or bowl-shaped, 6-12 mm in diam   (20)
       
20 (19) Corolla Chinese lanternlike; fruit 2-2.5 cm in diam.   13 H. emeiensis
+ Corolla bowl-shaped; fruit 3-3.5 cm in diam.   14 H. pengxianensis
       
21 (18) Fruit elliptic or claviform, over 7 cm   (22)
+ Fruit conical to elliptic, 3.5-5 cm   (23)
       
22 (21) Fruit narrowly elliptic-claviform, distinctly longitudinally costate, 7-8 cm, pedicel with indistinct articulation.   18 H. chengyihana
+ Fruit broadly to narrowly elliptic, indistinctly costate, (6-)11-17 cm, pedicel with distinct articulation.   19 H. zhejiangensis
       
23 (21) Corolla bowl-shaped, segments carnose, 8-9 mm; fruit elliptic to ovoid.   17 H. carnosiflora
+ Corolla Chinese lanternlike, segments thinner   (24)
       
24 (23) Fruit conical, base cuneate; corolla segments 14-17 mm.   15 H. turbinata
+ Fruit elliptic; base obtuse; corolla segments 10-15 mm.   16 H. ellipsoidea

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