Vasilis Teodoridis:
Schisandraceae | Kadsura
6. Kadsura longipedunculata Finet & Gagnepain; Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 52(Mém. 4): 53. 1906.
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Kadsura discigera Finet & Gagnepain; K. omeiensis S. F. Lan; K. peltigera Rehder & E. H. Wilson.
Plants glabrous throughout. Petiole 0.6-1.7(-3) cm; leaf blade elliptic to rarely ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic; 5.5-12(-15) x 2-4.5(-6.5) cm; papery to leathery; secondary veins 4-8 on each side of midvein; base cuneate to rarely broadly cuneate; margin subentire; denticulate; serrulate; or serrate; apex shortly to long acuminate. Flower peduncle 1.2-4(-6.4) cm (staminate); (1-)3-5(-16) cm (pistillate). Tepals 10-15(-20); pale yellow; yellow; or occasionally reddish; largest 4-7(-13) x 3-6(-10) mm. Staminate flowers: stamens 26-54; staminodes absent. Pistillate flowers: carpels 20-58. Fruit peduncle 2.5-9.5 cm; apocarps red; purple; or rarely black; 6.5-11.5(-15) x 4.5-6.5(-11) mm. Seeds 1-3 per apocarp; reniform; 3.5-4.5 x 4.5-6 mm. Fl. Jun-Sep; fr. Sep-Dec. 2n = 28*.
? Forests; especially near rivers; 100-1300(-1700) m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan; Zhejiang.
This species is used medicinally. The fruit is edible
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Schisandraceae | Kadsura
6. Kadsura longipedunculata Finet & Gagnepain; Bull. Soc. Bot. France. 52(Mém. 4): 53. 1906.
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Kadsura discigera Finet & Gagnepain; K. omeiensis S. F. Lan; K. peltigera Rehder & E. H. Wilson.
Plants glabrous throughout. Petiole 0.6-1.7(-3) cm; leaf blade elliptic to rarely ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic; 5.5-12(-15) x 2-4.5(-6.5) cm; papery to leathery; secondary veins 4-8 on each side of midvein; base cuneate to rarely broadly cuneate; margin subentire; denticulate; serrulate; or serrate; apex shortly to long acuminate. Flower peduncle 1.2-4(-6.4) cm (staminate); (1-)3-5(-16) cm (pistillate). Tepals 10-15(-20); pale yellow; yellow; or occasionally reddish; largest 4-7(-13) x 3-6(-10) mm. Staminate flowers: stamens 26-54; staminodes absent. Pistillate flowers: carpels 20-58. Fruit peduncle 2.5-9.5 cm; apocarps red; purple; or rarely black; 6.5-11.5(-15) x 4.5-6.5(-11) mm. Seeds 1-3 per apocarp; reniform; 3.5-4.5 x 4.5-6 mm. Fl. Jun-Sep; fr. Sep-Dec. 2n = 28*.
? Forests; especially near rivers; 100-1300(-1700) m. Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Hubei; Hunan; Jiangsu; Jiangxi; Sichuan; Yunnan; Zhejiang.
This species is used medicinally. The fruit is edible
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Poaceae | Indocalamus
16. Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) P. C. Keng; Acta Phytotax. Sin. 6: 355. 1957.
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Bambusa tessellata Munro; Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 110. 1868; Pseudosasa longivaginata H. R. Zhao & Y. L. Yang; Sasa tessellata (Munro) Makino & Shibata; Sasamorpha tessellata (Munro) Koidzumi.
Culms 0.75–2 m; 0.4–0.7 cm in diam.; internodes usually green; ca. 25(–32) cm; with a red-brown tomentose ring below each node; nodes weakly elevated; supra-nodal ridge slightly more prominent than sheath scar. Culm sheaths striate; usually longer than internodes; upper portion loosely encircling culm; lower portion closely encircling it; thinly leathery; white tomentose; purple-brown strigose; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule truncate; 1–2 mm; membranous; brown hirtellous; blade deciduous; narrowly lanceolate; variable in size. Leaf sheaths leathery; glabrous; margin basally ciliate; distally glabrous; auricles rare; to 1 mm; oral setae very scarce; erect; white; straight; to 2 mm; ligule truncate or eroded; 1–2 mm; puberulent; blade broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate; 20–46 x 4–10.8 cm; abaxially gray-green; glabrous or densely appressed-puberulent and tomentose along both or one side of midrib; secondary veins 8–16 pairs; tessellations square. Panicle 10–15 cm; partially exserted; branches erect; main axis and branches densely brown-puberulent. Spikelets purple-green; nearly terete; 2.3–2.5 cm; florets 5–15; pedicels 1–4 cm. Rachilla internodes 1–4 mm; white puberulent. Glumes 1 or 2; papery; lower glume 5–7 mm; densely puberulent; 5-veined; upper glume 7–12 mm; distally puberulent; 7-veined; first lemma 1.1–1.3 cm; distally puberulent; 11–13-veined; margins sparsely ciliate; apex very long acuminate to mucronate; callus 0.5–1 mm; white barbate; first palea ca. 1/3 as long as lemma; minutely white pubescent between keels; apex very shortly 2-cleft and pubescent; lodicules 3; oblong-lanceolate; ciliate; distally sparsely pilose. Anthers red; 6–7 mm. Ovary green; ovoid; style red; ca. 2 mm; stigmas 2; red; 3–4 mm. Caryopsis ca. 7 x 2.5 mm; style base persistent. New shoots Apr–May; fl. Jun–Jul.
* Open forests on mountain slopes; 300–1400 m. Hunan; Zhejiang.