山柑藤 shan gan teng

Lianas climbing to 8 m or erect shrubs. Branchlets yellowish tomentose. Petiole 2-4 mm, tomentulose; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, 4-13 × 2.5-6 cm, ± leathery, glabrescent, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate; veins 4-6 on each side of midvein. Inflorescences fascicled, 1-3 cm, tomentulose; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm. Perianth yellowish, urceolate, ca. 3 mm; lobes 4, ovate-triangular, ca. 0.5 mm, recurved. Filaments ca. 2 mm; anthers broadly ovoid. Disk scales 4, ovate, apex acute. Ovary cylindric. Style ca. 1 mm, persistent; stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Drupe orange-red, ellipsoid, 1.2-1.5 × 0.7-1 cm, glabrous. Fl. Oct-Dec, fr. Jan-Apr.

Forests, thickets; near sea level to 1400 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia, Pacific Islands].