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6. Tetrastigma (Miquel) Planchon in A. Candolle & C. Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 5: 320, 423. 1887.

崖爬藤属 ya pa teng shu

Authors: Hui Ren & Jun Wen

Climbers, woody, rarely herbaceous, usually polygamo-dioecious. Tendrils unbranched or bifurcate, sometimes palmately branched. Leaves usually palmately 3-5-foliolate or pedately 5-7-foliolate, rarely simple. Inflorescence a polychasium, an umbel, or a compound cyme. Flowers 4-merous. Petals spreading, free, usually hooded or galeate, sometimes corniculate. Stamens short, abortive in female flowers. Disk well developed in male flowers, inconspicuous in female flowers. Style conspicuous or inconspicuous; stigma usually 4-divided, rarely irregularly divided. Berry globose, ellipsoid, or obovoid, 1-4-seeded. Seed elliptic, obovoid-elliptic, or obtriangular, abaxial surface with a linear to orbicular chalazal knot, adaxial surface with a linear raphe; cross-section of endosperm T- or M-shaped.

About 100 species: Asia to Oceania; 44 species (24 endemic) in China.

The type of Tetrastigma megalocarpum W. T. Wang (Acta Phytotax. Sin. 17(3): 82. 1979), described from Yunnan, could not be located. It was said by C. L. Li to be a mixed gathering: leaf of Tetrastigma and fruit of Spondias Linnaeus (Anacardiaceae).


1 Leaves simple, rarely mixed with 2- or 3-foliolate ones   (2)
+ Leaves palmately or pedately compound   (4)
       
2 (1) Young branches and petiole ± pubescent; leaf veinlets abaxially inconspicuously raised; calyx teeth conspicuous, conical; petals pubescent.   18 T. subtetragonum
+ Young branches and petiole glabrous; leaf veinlets abaxially ± raised; calyx teeth inconspicuous; petals glabrous   (3)
       
3 (2) Leaves subleathery; peduncle 2-3.5 cm, pubescent; pedicels 2-3 mm, pubescent.   15 T. erubescens
+ Leaves papery; peduncle 8-13.5 cm, glabrous; pedicels 4-10 mm, glabrous.   5 T. longipedunculatum
       
4 (1) Leaves pedately 5-7-foliolate   (5)
+ Leaves digitately palmately 3-5-foliolate   (26)
       
5 (4) Leaflets abaxially pubescent or at least on veins   (6)
+ Leaflets abaxially glabrous   (10)
       
6 (5) Margin of central leaflet 12-24-toothed on each side; seeds elliptic or obtriangular   (7)
+ Margin of central leaflet 4-9-toothed on each side; seeds elliptic or obovoid-elliptic   (8)
       
7 (6) Branchlets, petioles, and abaxial veins densely ferruginous villous; petals corniculate; seeds elliptic, surface smooth.   3 T. tonkinense
+ Branchlets, petioles, and abaxial veins pilose; petals not corniculate; seeds obtriangular, surface with ribs.   31 T. rumicispermum
       
8 (6) Leaflets leathery or subleathery, petiole conspicuously corrugated when dry.   29 T. pubinerve
+ Leaflets papery, petiole inconspicuously corrugated when dry   (9)
       
9 (8) Calyx teeth small and inconspicuous.   41 T. serrulatum
+ Calyx teeth obvious and long.   17 T. henryi
       
10 (5) Peduncle glabrous   (11)
+ Peduncle pubescent or papillose   (18)
       
11 (10) Leaflet margin 3- or 4(or 5)-toothed on each side   (12)
+ Leaflet margin 7-14(or 15)-toothed on each side   (13)
       
12 (11) Central leaflet elliptic-lanceolate; berries oblong.   14 T. caudatum
+ Central leaflet obovate-elliptic; berries obovoid-elliptic.   28 T. godefroyanum
       
13 (11) Petals apically conspicuously corniculate   (14)
+ Petals galeate, or inconspicuously corniculate at apex   (15)
       
14 (13) Lianas, robust, woody; old branches gray and tuberculate; seeds obtriangular, surface with ribs.   32 T. ceratopetalum
+ Lianas, slender; old branches green-brownish or purplish, not tuberculate; seeds globose, surface finely corrugated.   41 T. serrulatum
       
15 (13) Leaves pedately 7-foliolate.   34 T. jingdongense
+ Leaves pedately 5-foliolate, sometimes 7-foliolate   (16)
       
16 (15) Branchlets gray; seeds globose, surface corrugated.   26 T. xishuangbannaense
+ Branchlets greenish; seeds obtriangular, surface with ribs   (17)
       
17 (16) Leaflets obovate-oblong or obovate-elliptic, base nearly rounded, that of central leaflet broadly cuneate, apex acute or acuminate.   30 T. lenticellatum
+ Leaflets obovate-lanceolate or obovate, base cuneate, apex caudate-acuminate or mucronate.   31 T. rumicispermum
       
18 (10) Petals apically conspicuously corniculate   (19)
+ Petals apically galeate, not corniculate   (20)
       
19 (18) Calyx teeth inconspicuous; leaves pedately 5-foliolate, mixed with 3-foliolate leaves.   27 T. pachyphyllum
+ Calyx teeth conspicuous; leaves pedately 5-foliolate, mixed with 3- or 7-foliolate leaves.   17 T. henryi
       
20 (18) Calyx teeth conspicuous; leaflets lanceolate.   2 T. lineare
+ Calyx teeth inconspicuous; leaflets oblanceolate, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate   (21)
       
21 (20) Central leaflet oblanceolate, margin 12-16-toothed; calyx cupular.   36 T. tsaianum
+ Central leaflet elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, margin 4-10-toothed; calyx saucer-shaped   (22)
       
22 (21) Ovary brownish pubescent.   33 T. macrocorymbum
+ Ovary glabrous   (23)
       
23 (22) Leaves pedately 5-foliolate, rarely 4- or 6-foliolate   (24)
+ Leaves pedately 7-foliolate   (25)
       
24 (23) Leaves leathery; inflorescence leaf-opposed, longer than petiole.   23 T. xizangense
+ Leaves papery; inflorescence axillary, shorter than petiole.   24 T. lincangense
       
25 (23) Berry 2.5-3 cm in diam.; seeds elliptic, surface corrugated.   25 T. jinghongense
+ Berry 0.8-1.5 cm in diam.; seeds obtriangular, surface with ribs.   35 T. delavayi
       
26 (4) Leaves palmately 5-foliolate   (27)
+ Leaves 3-foliolate   (35)
       
27 (26) Tendrils digitately branched   (28)
+ Tendrils bifurcate or unbranched   (29)
       
28 (27) Inflorescence a compound cyme.   43 T. yunnanense
+ Inflorescence a simple umbel.   44 T. obtectum
       
29 (27) Leaves abaxially densely pubescent or hirsute, then becoming sparsely so   (30)
+ Leaves abaxially glabrous   (31)
       
30 (29) Branchlets, petioles, rachises, and abaxial leaf surface rusty pubescent, hairs 0.2-0.4 mm.   21 T. sichouense
+ Branchlets, petioles, rachises, and abaxial leaf surface brownish hirsute, hairs 2-3 mm.   22 T. obovatum
       
31 (29) Branches 1.5-2 mm in diam.; inflorescence a simple umbel.   40 T. hypoglaucum
+ Branches 3-6 mm in diam.; inflorescence a compound dichasium or polychasium   (32)
       
32 (31) Inflorescence cauliflorous (on old stems).   20 T. cauliflorum
+ Inflorescence on current year’s branches   (33)
       
33 (32) Petals apically conspicuously corniculate.   15 T. erubescens
+ Petals apically galeate, not corniculate   (34)
       
34 (33) Central leaflet lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate; style inconspicuous.   19 T. planicaule
+ Central leaflet obovate-elliptic; style conspicuous.   21 T. sichouense
       
35 (26) Tendrils digitately branched.   42 T. triphyllum
+ Tendrils bifurcate or unbranched   (36)
       
36 (35) Leaves abaxially pubescent or at least on veins   (37)
+ Leaves abaxially glabrous   (38)
       
37 (36) Leaflets abaxially pubescent; calyx teeth subulate, ca. 1/2 as long as petals.   17 T. henryi
+ Leaflets abaxially pubescent only on veins; calyx teeth inconspicuous.   7 T. jinxiuense
       
38 (36) Pedicels glabrous   (39)
+ Pedicels ± pubescent or papillose   (42)
       
39 (38) Leaflets entire at margin.   6 T. yiwuense
+ Leaflets toothed at margin   (40)
       
40 (39) Shrubs, erect or nearly erect.   4 T. apiculatum
+ Lianas   (41)
       
41 (40) Leaves usually 4-6(-8) × 2-3 cm; petiole 1-2 cm; inflorescence axillary.   38 T. formosanum
+ Leaves usually 7-12 × 4-6.2 cm; petiole 5-10 cm; inflorescence opposite or pseudo-opposite to leaves.   39 T. lanyuense
       
42 (38) Leaves leathery or subleathery, veinlets raised on abaxial surface or both surfaces   (43)
+ Leaves papery, veinlets inconspicuously raised   (44)
       
43 (42) Leaves subleathery, veinlets raised only on abaxial surface.   11 T. kwangsiense
+ Leaves leathery, veinlets raised on both surfaces.   8 T. retinervium var. pubescens
       
44 (42) Petals apically galeate, not corniculate   (45)
+ Petals apically conspicuously corniculate   (47)
       
45 (44) Leaflets rhombic-oval, abaxially conspicuously glaucous; petals pilose with white hairs.   9 T. campylocarpum
+ Leaflets elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate-elliptic, abaxially not glaucous; petals glabrous   (46)
       
46 (45) Branchlets smooth with sparse lenticels; central leaflet elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate.   10 T. funingense
+ Branchlets conspicuously tuberculate; central leaflet usually obovate-oval.   13 T. pseudocruciatum
       
47 (44) Calyx teeth conspicuous, cone-shaped, ca. 1/2 as long as petals.   17 T. henryi
+ Calyx teeth small and inconspicuous   (48)
       
48 (47) Herbaceous climbers; seed surface smooth   (49)
+ Woody lianas; seed surface corrugated   (50)
       
49 (48) Petals ± papillose; ventral holes of seeds parallel with ventral raphe.   1 T. papillatum
+ Petals glabrous; ventral holes of seeds furrowed.   37 T. hemsleyanum
       
50 (48) Leaves obovate-elliptic; petals densely papillose; berries globose.   27 T. pachyphyllum
+ Leaves elliptic or lanceolate; petals glabrous; berries ellipsoid   (51)
       
51 (50) Branches tuberculate; inflorescence densely compact; style inconspicuous.   12 T. cruciatum
+ Branchlets smooth, with sparse lenticels; inflorescence loosely branched; style conspicuous   (52)
       
52 (51) Leaflet margin usually 12-24-toothed on each side, abaxial veinlets conspicuous.   16 T. venulosum
+ Leaflet margin 3-8-toothed on each side, abaxial veinlets inconspicuous   (53)
       
53 (52) Leaves usually 3-foliolate, rarely pedately 5-foliolate; leaflets lanceolate or elliptic, apex caudate-acuminate.   14 T. caudatum
+ Leaves usually 3-foliolate, occasionally palmately 5-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex mucronate.   15 T. erubescens

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