绿花鸡血藤 lü hua ji xue teng

Millettia championii Bentham, Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 74. 1852; Callerya reticulata (Bentham) Schot var. championii (Bentham) H. Sun.

Lianas, to 2 m, glabrous except inflorescences. Stems red­dish brown, with scattered lenticels. Leaves 5(or 7)-foliolate; rachis 10-20 cm, including petiole 3-5 cm; leaflet blades ovate to ovate-oblong, (3-)4-6 × 1.5-2(-3) cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous and shiny, pale green when dry, secondary and tertiary veins distinct and raised on both surfaces, base rounded, apex acuminate to caudate. Panicles terminal, 15-20 cm; flowering branchlets 6-8 cm, ascending, straight and solid, nodes con­gested. Flowers ca. 1.2 cm. Corolla yellowish white with a pink halo; standard orbicular, glabrous, without basal calluses. Ovary glabrous, with numerous ovules. Legume linear, 6-12 × 0.5-1.2 cm, flat; valves thin. Seeds 2 or 3 per legume, lenticular when immature. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Nov.

● Thickets by ravines of rocky valleys; 200-800 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi.

The stems and roots are poisonous but also used medicinally.

Although P. K. Lôc made the combination Callerya championii (Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 81(10): 97. 1996), it was not validly published because he did not provide a full bibliographic refer­ence to the basionym (Vienna Code, Art. 33.4).