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Berchemia lineata

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Common Names

• Tie bao jin (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan-China
• N. India
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Nepal
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Roadsides
• open areas.

Flowering Times

• Jul-Oct (China) Aug-Sep (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (China) Nov-Feb (Vietnam)

Prostrate or scandent pubescent shrub with downy unarmed glabrous or glabrescent branches. Mucronate glabrous leaves to 200mm x 12mm netted beneath with red veins.Terminal racemes or axillary fascicles to 30mm long of 5mm diameter hermaphroditic white flowers, 5 sepals 3mm x 1.5mm, 5 petals 3mm long. Yellowish-green drupe to 8mm x 3mm, aging to blue-black, with persistent disc at base.

Medicinal uses for roots & leaves

Further References

• Bean 1950
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• Bodkin
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA