Kadsura

Kadsura japonica

The Kadsura, also called ball threads, are a genus of flowering plants in the family of Sternanisgewächse ( Schisandraceae ). The best-known species of the genus is a native of East Asia Kadsura japonica. Some Kadsura species are used as medicinal plants.

  • 4.1 Notes and references

Name

The name comes from Japanese Kadsura Kazura (Japanese葛, " climber "). However, the characters used for the kudzu. Kadsura japonica is in Japan sanekazura (実 葛, literally " fruit - climber " ) or binankazura (美男 葛, literally: " Beautiful man - climber " ) called.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

Kadsura species are woody climbing plants. They can be evergreen or deciduous. The plant parts are bare (except for Kadsura Induta ).

The alternate arranged leaves are divided into leaf blade and petiole. The papery to leathery leaf blade is elliptic, ovate or obovate. The leaf margin is smooth or serrated. Stipules absent.

Flowers, fruits and seeds

They mostly monoecious ( monoecious ) or rarely dioecious ( dioecious ) getrenntgeschlechtig. The unisexual flowers are in leaf axils or on short-lived bracts, rarely kauliflor usually solitary or rarely in pairs to fourth together. From 7 to 24 bloom cladding the innermost and outermost are smaller than the average. The male contain 13-80 stamens; they are mostly grown more than at their base, are sometimes capitate together. The pollen is sechscolpat. In the female flowers which 17 are arranged spirally to 300 free carpels. Each carpel usually contains from one to five, rarely up to eleven ovules.

At an ellipsoidal or culled flower axis ( receptaculum ) several stand together to many individual fruits. The almost spherical, ovoid or oblong - wrong - ovoid individual fruits turn red or yellow when ripe and contain mostly one to five, rarely up to eleven seed. The seeds are smooth.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Kadsura was first published in 1810 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in Annales du Muséum National d' Histoire Naturelle, 16, p 340. The type species is Kadsura japonica (L.) Dunal. The genus belongs to the subfamily of Kadsura ski Sandro ideae in the family of Schisandraceae. The Kadsura species are mostly native to East and Southeast Asia, for example, in China there are eight species.

The genus contains about 28 species Kadsura, here is a selection:

  • Kadsura ananosma Kerr
  • Kadsura coccinea ( Lemaire ) A.C.Smith
  • Kadsura heteroclita ( Roxb. ) Craib ( Syn: Uvaria heteroclita Roxburgh )
  • Kadsura Induta A.C.Smith
  • Kadsura japonica (L.) Dunal ( Syn: Uvaria japonica L.); Home: China, Japan, Taiwan
  • Kadsura longipedunculata Finet & Gagnepain ( Syn: Kadsura Peltigera Rehder & EHWilson )
  • Kadsura marmorata ( Hend. & A.A.Hend. ) A.C.Sm.
  • Kadsura oblongifolia Merrill
  • Kadsura polysperma Y.C.Yang
  • Kadsura renchangiana S.F.Lan

Swell

  • Yuhu Liu, Nianhe Xia, Liu Yuhu & Richard MK Saunders: Schisandraceae in the Flora of China, Volume 7, page 39: Kadsura - Online. (Section Description and systematics)
  • Walter Erhardt et al: The big walleye. Encyclopedia of plant names. Volume 2 Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
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