|
| 1 |
Plants dioecious; inflorescences terminal, with stems usually branching immediately below. |
|
(2) |
| + |
Plants monoecious; inflorescences axillary, rarely also terminal at the tips of branchlets. |
|
(5) |
| |
|
|
|
| 2 (1) |
Leaves reduced, scale-like, 0.5-1 mm; male cymes 3-5-flowered. |
|
4 V. nudum |
| + |
Leaves well developed, 2-7 cm; male cymes 3-flowered. |
|
(3) |
| |
|
|
|
| 3 (2) |
Leaf blade linear, 0.1-0.4 cm wide, veins indistinct; fruit ovoid, greenish, ca. 4 mm in diam. |
|
3 V. fargesii |
| + |
Leaf blade not linear, over 0.7 cm wide, 3-5-veined; fruit globose or ellipsoid, yellowish, orange, reddish, or red, 6-8 mm in diam. |
|
(4) |
| |
|
|
|
| 4 (3) |
Leaf blade elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5(-2) cm wide; fruit globose, yellowish, orange, reddish, or red, 6-8 mm in diam. |
|
1 V. coloratum |
| + |
Leaf blade usually obovate, 1.5-2.5 cm wide; fruit ellipsoid, yellow, ca. 6 mm in diam. |
|
2 V. album subsp. meridianum |
| |
|
|
|
| 5 (1) |
Leaves well developed; base of fruit rounded or contracted into stipe. |
|
(6) |
| + |
Leaves reduced, scale-like; base of fruit rounded. |
|
(9) |
| |
|
|
|
| 6 (5) |
Cymes 3-flowered, central flower female and lateral flowers male, adventitious flowers absent; fruit subglobose, base contracted into a ca. 1 mm stalk, tuberculate. |
|
9 V. ovalifolium |
| + |
Cymes (3-)5-7-flowered, outermost flowers adventitious; fruit ellipsoid, subglobose, or obovoid, base rounded, smooth. |
|
(7) |
| |
|
|
|
| 7 (6) |
Cymes 5-7-flowered, central flower male, lateral 4-6 flowers female; fruit ellipsoid, base rounded, apex obtuse. |
|
5 V. yunnanense |
| + |
Cymes 3-7-flowered, central 1-3 flowers female, lateral 2-4 flowers male; fruit ellipsoid, subglobose, or obovoid; base rounded or contracted. |
|
(8) |
| |
|
|
|
| 8 (7) |
Fruit ellipsoid, base slightly rounded; leaf blade elliptic to lanceolate, sometimes falcate. |
|
6 V. monoicum |
| + |
Fruit subglobose or obovoid, base contracted into a slender, 2-4 mm stalk; leaf blade lanceolate or falcate, rarely oblong-ovate. |
|
7 V. multinerve |
| |
|
|
|
| 9 (5) |
Stem internodes flattened, longitudinally 3-7-ridged, usually over 2.5 mm wide. |
|
(10) |
| + |
Stem internodes subterete or terete, to 2.5 mm wide. |
|
(11) |
| |
|
|
|
| 10 (9) |
Fruit globose, 3-4 mm in diam., whitish or greenish white; often epiparasitic on species of Loranthaceae. |
|
10 V. articulatum |
| + |
Fruit ellipsoid, sometimes ovoid, 4-5 mm in diam., reddish or yellow; never epiparasitic. |
|
12 V. liquidambaricola |
| |
|
|
|
| 11 (9) |
Seedling with 2-3 pairs of leaves; branchlets flattened; fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, 4-5 mm, smooth. |
|
11 V. diospyrosicola |
| + |
Seedling leafless; branchlets and branchlets rounded; fruit subglobose 3-4 mm, slightly verruculose. |
|
8 V. loranthi |
|
