• Scientific Name: Biondia microcentra (Tsiang) P.T.Li
• Ref: J. S. China Agric. Univ. 12(3):39. 1991
• Synonym: Adelostemma microcentrum Tsiang; Biondia elliptica P.T.Li & Z.Y.Zhu
• Chinese Common Name: 祛风藤 qūfēng∙téng
• Family: Apocynaceae
• Genus: Biondia
• Distribution: Open woods, thickets; ca. 800 m. Anhui, Sichuan, ?Yunnan, Zhejiang
• Photo: 06/09/2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Lianas, twining to 2 m. Stems, branches, petioles, and peduncles mostly pubescent along 1 side. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 1-7 × 0.5-1.4(-2.3) cm, papery or nearly so, glabrous except for minutely puberulent midrib adaxially, base minutely rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate; lateral veins 4-7 pairs, usually obscure. Inflorescences shorter than leaves; cymules usually solitary, 4-9-flowered; peduncle (1.5-)4-13(-23) mm. Pedicel (1.7-)3-4(-12) mm. Sepals lanceolate, 1.6-3 × 0.8-1 mm, apex acute, pubescent; basal glands 5. Corolla yellowish white with "purplish" interior, cylindric-urceolate; tube (2.5-)3.5-4 mm, pubescent inside; lobes oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 1.2-2 × ca. 1 mm. Corona minute, ringlike. Anther appendages rounded, incurved; pollinia ± cylindric, slightly curved, ca. 0.4 mm, as long as corpusculum, caudicels short and rigid. Stigma head round/conical, obscurely 2-lobed; ovaries glabrous. Follicles oblong-lanceolate, 8-12 cm × 5-7 mm. Seeds oblong, ca. 6 × 2 mm, flat; coma to 3 cm. Fl. Apr-Jul. (Flora of China)

06/09/2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang