台湾轮环藤 tai wan lun huan teng

Cissampelos ochiaiana Yamamoto, Icon. Pl. Formosan., Suppl. 4: 14. 1928; Paracyclea ochiaiana (Yamamoto) Kudô & Yamamoto.

Vines. Branches terete, striate. Petiole slender, 0.5-5 cm, pilose; leaf blade narrowly peltate, triangular-ovate, 3-6.5 × 2.5-5 cm, abaxially densely tomentose, adaxially glabrous or pilose, base truncate to shallowly cordate, margin bluntly 1- or 2-toothed, apex acute, basal veins 5-7. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, narrowly paniculate, 4-8 cm, ± conical. Male flowers: pedicel ca. as long as sepals; sepals 4, outer ones broader, abaxially pubescent; petals apparently absent; synandrium shorter than sepals. Female flowers: pedicel shorter than sepals; sepals 2, oblong-ovate, recurved; ovary densely hairy. Drupes red, compressed globose, ca. 3 × 2 mm thick, hispid; endocarp abaxially bearing 2 rows of tubercles; condyle ?not perforate.

● Forest margins at low altitudes. Taiwan.