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Menispermum dauricum

Botanic Family

Menispermaceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

• Bian fu ge (Pinyin)
• Dahurian Moonseed
• Kōmori-kazuru (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Beijing Shi
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guizhou
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Nei Mongol
• Ningxia
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Zhejiang - China
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• S. Siberia - Russia

Natural Habitats

• Roadsides
• bushland
• disturbed areas
• forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jun-Jul (China)
• May-Jun (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Sep (China)

Deciduous dioecious herbaceous twining climbing shrub with mucronate leaves to 130mm x 130mm. Glabrous panicles or racemes of up to 20 flowers, greenish-yellow small flowers, male flowers to 3.5mm, female to 1mm and 10mm x 8mm thick purple-black drupe

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• JAA
• FOJ