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Vitis heyneana

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

Roemer & Schultes

Common Names

• Mao pu tao (Pinyin)
• Mountain Splitter
• Wild Grape
• Kakryon (Gurung)
• Kangri Jhar (Gurung)
• Purni (Gurung)
• Bhim Lahara (Nepali)
• Pureni (Nepali)
• Gangap (Tamang)
• Cay gio (Vietnam)
• Cay gio nho (Vietnam)
• Tien do (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Shanxi
• Shaanxi
• Gansu
• Shandong
• Henan
• Anhui
• Chongquing
• Jiangxi
• Zhejiang
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Sichuan
• Guizhou
• Yunnan
• Xizang
• Hebei
• Jiangsu-China
• Bhutan
• India
• Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Sikkim
• Tibet
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• woodland
• forest
• montane forest
• moist open rocky places

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China) Early Summer May-Jun (Vietnam)

Fruiting Times

• Aug to Nov
• Jun-Oct (China) Sep (Vietnam)

Woody liana with bifurcate tendrils, ridged tomentose branchlets, simple dentate mucronate leaves 3-5 lobed white felted beneath, fragrant yellowish flowers in leaf-opposed panicles to 140mm, glabrous calyx, 5 petals, fruit a purple-black berry to 13mm diameter, serrated leaves glabrous above, rusty down beneath

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA