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Nekemias cantoniensis

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

(Hooker & Arnott) J. Wen & Z.L. Nie

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C

Common Names

• Guang dong she pu tao (Pinyin)
• Udo-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Cambodia
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Java
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Is.
• Shikoku - Japan
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• shrubland
• forest
• waterfall edge
• wasteland
• thickets
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Jun (Vietnam)
• Apr-Jul (China) Jul-Aug (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (Vietnam)
• Aug-Nov (China)

Deciduous woody vine or erect shrub with glabrous or puberulent lenticellate branches, sometimes variegated. Glabrous ternately 2-3 pinnate, 5-13 foliolate leaves to 300mm long, toothed mucronate leaflets to 70mm long glabrous above with bifid or trifid tendrils. Puberulous terminal or leaf-opposed corymbs or cymes to 90mm long x 60mm, greenish-yellow or white flowers to 2mm across, puberulent calyx, 5 petals to 2.8mm long. Glabrous red or black berry to 10mm.

Further References

• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FOC
• Fedde
• F Indochine
• JAA
• GBS
• FOJ
• IFV