• Scientific Name: Actinidia hemsleyana Dunn
• Ref: J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 38: 355. 1908
• Synonyms: Actinidia hemsleyana var. kengiana (F. P. Metcalf) C. F. Liang; A. kengiana F. P. Metcalf; A. subglaucifolia F. P. Metcalf
• Chinese Common Name: 长叶猕猴桃 chángyè míhóutáo
• Family: Actinidiaceae
• Genus: Actinidia
• Distribution: Low mountain forests; 500-900 m. N Fujian, E Jiangxi, S Zhejiang.
• Photo: 08/14/2016,Jingning,Zhejiang
• Type: Actinidia kengiana Metc. in Lingnan Sci. J. 11(1): 16. 1932. Ching-ning, South Chekiang,1926-08-16，Y.L. Keng 394(A)。=A.hemsleyana Dunn
• Note: This species is named after the collector, Y.L. Keng, whose field notes give much interesting and desirable information; a promising student who was awarded a special scholarship by the Nanking government and is now studying grasses at the U.S. National Herbarium, Washington, D.C.

Climbing shrubs, large, deciduous. Floral branchlets sparsely rusty strigose, lenticels inconspicuous, two-year-old branches glabrous or with some relict strigose hairs; pith brown, lamellate. Petiole 1.5-5 cm, sparsely strigose to glabrous; leaf blade abaxially glaucous, adaxially green, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, or obovate-lanceolate, 8-22 × 3-8.5 cm, highly variable in shape and size, papery, abaxially glabrous to brownish pubescent on midvein and lateral veins, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, base cuneate to rounded, usually oblique, margin subentire to serrulate or coarsely dentate, apex acute to obtuse. Inflorescences cymose, axillary, 1-3-flowered, densely brownish tomentose; peduncles 5-10 mm, pedicels 1.2-1.9 cm; bracts subulate, ca. 3 mm, velutinous. Flowers reddish. Sepals 5, ovate, ca. 5 mm, densely brownish tomentose. Petals 5, obovate, ca. 1 cm. Ovary appressed-globose, ca. 6 mm in diam., densely brownish tomentose. Fruit cylindric-ovoid, ca. 3 cm, glabrous when mature, lenticellate; persistent sepals reflexed. Seeds ca. 2 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Oct. 2n = 58*. (Flora of China)