网络鸡血藤 Callerya reticulata

  • Scientific Name: Callerya reticulata (Benth.) Schot
  • Ref: Blumea 39:29. 1994
  • Synonym: Millettia reticulata Benth.
  • Chinese Common Name: 网络鸡血藤 wǎngluò jīxuè∙téng, 昆明鸡血藤 Kūnmíng jīxuè∙téng, 网络崖豆藤 wǎngluò yádòu∙téng
  • Japanese Common Name: ムラサキナツフジ [紫夏藤] murasakinatsufuji
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Genus: Callerya
  • Distribution: Thickets on slopes or in valleys, thickets by streams; 100-1200 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [N Vietnam].
  • Photo: 06/26/2017, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Lianas, 2-10 m. Stems thick, many branched, thinly ridged, brown pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves (5 or)7- or 9-foliolate; rachis 10-20 cm, including petiole 2-5 cm; leaflet blades ovate-elliptic, oblong, linear, or narrowly lanceolate, (3-)5-6(-8) × (0.5-)1.5-4 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous or rarely sparsely puberulent, base rounded, tapering, or cune­ate, apex obtuse, acuminate, or retuse. Panicles terminal or axil­lary near apex of branchlets, 10-20 cm, often pendulous, brown pubescent; flowering branchlets densely congested. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Flowers 1.3-1.7 mm. Calyx 3-4 × ca. 5 mm, glabrescent; teeth short, margin yellow ciliate. Corolla purple; standard ovate-oblong, glabrous, without basal calluses, base shortly clawed. Ovary glabrous, with numerous ovules. Legume black­ened when dry, linear, ca. 15 × 1-1.5 cm, flat, thinly leathery; suture not thickened. Seeds 3-6 per legume, black, oblong, ca. 11 × 7 mm. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Jun-Nov. (Flora of China)

06/26/2017, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

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