绞股蓝(原变种) jiao gu lan (yuan bian zhong)

Vitis pentaphylla Thunberg in Murray, Syst. Veg., ed. 14, 244. 1784; Alsomitra cissoides M. Roemer; Enkylia digyna Griffith; E. trigyna Griffith; Gomphogyne alleizettei Gagnepain; Gynostemma pallidinerve Z. Zhang; G. pedatum Blume; G. pedatum var. hupehense Pampanini; G. pedatum var. pubescens Gagnepain; G. pedatum var. trifoliatum Hayata; G. pubescens (Gagnepain) C. Y. Wu; G. siamicum Craib; G. zhejiangense X. J. Xue; Pestalozzia pedata (Blume) Zollinger & Moritzi; V. mairei H. Léveillé (1912), not H. Léveillé (1909); V. martini H. Léveillé & Vaniot; Zanonia pedata (Blume) Miquel.

Fruit glabrous.

Forests, thickets or roadsides on mountain slopes; 300-3200 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, S Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, S Japan, S Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Vietnam].

One of us (Jeffrey) would treat "Gynostemma burmanicum," G. laxum, and G. longipes as synonyms of G. pentaphyllum var. pentaphyllum.