Vitis flexuosa Thunb.

Branchlets terete, with longitudinal ridges, with sparse arachnoid tomentum when young, becoming glabrescent; tendrils bifurcate. Leaves simple; stipules caducous; petiole 1.5-7 cm, with sparse arachnoid tomentum or subglabrate; leaf blade ovate, triangular-ovate, oval, or ovate-elliptic, 2.5-12 × 2.3-10 cm, abaxially with sparse arachnoid tomentum when young, eventually glabrescent, basal veins 5, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, veinlets inconspicuous, base slightly subcordate or subtruncate, rarely cordate, often asymmetrical, leaves with cordate bases with obtusely angled notch, margin with 5-12 slightly irregular teeth on each side, apex acute or acuminate. Panicle leaf-opposed, loose, 4-12 cm, basal branches well developed, or short and slender; peduncle 2-5 cm, with sparse arachnoid tomentum or nearly glabrescent. Pedicel 1.1-2.5 mm, glabrous. Buds obovoid, 2-3 mm, apex rounded and subtruncate. Calyx glabrous, undulately lobed. Filaments filiform, 0.7-1.3 mm; anthers yellow, oval, 0.4-0.6 mm. Pistil abortive in male flowers; ovary oval; style short. Berry globose, 8-10 mm in diam. Seeds obovoid, apex subrounded, chalazal knot elliptic, raphe slightly raised and surface smooth, ventral holes furrowed upward 1/4 from base. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Nov. 2n = 38.

A trailing climber, with smooth stem and branches, old branches somewhat woody; bark dark brown, peeling off in strips, tendril simple, glabrous, bifurcate, not tapering or forming adhesive disc at end. Leaves 4-8 x 3-6 cm, simple, cordate, ovate, sometimes deeply 3-5 lobed crenate-serrate, long acuminate, glabrous on both sides or bearded at the axil of the nerves beneath, membranous, mostly five nerved at the base; petiole 2-3 cm long, glabrous or ± tomentose, stipules oval, caducous. Inflorescence a thyrs, 2-3.5 cm long. Pedicel c.1.5 mm long. Calyx obscurely 5-lobed, minute, less than 1 mm across. Petals 5, c. 2 mm long. Stamens 5(-7). Ovary 4 celled with one ovule in each cell. Disc adnate to the base of ovary, style absent, stigma obscurely lobed. Berry black, globose 5-7 mm in diameter, 2-4 seeded. Seeds obovoid, black 3x3 4 mm.

Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam].

Himalaya (Kashmir to Nepal), Indo-China, W. & C. China.

Distribution: India, Pakistan, N.W Himalayas, Kashmir, China, Malayesia, and Japan.

1200-2100 m

Forests, shrublands, hillsides, valleys, meadows, fields; 100-2300 m.

Vitis cavaleriei H. Léveillé & Vaniot; V. flexuosa var. chinensis Veitch; V. flexuosa f. parvifolia (Roxburgh) Planchon; V. flexuosa var. parvifolia (Roxburgh) Gagnepain; V. flexuosa var. wallichii (Candolle) F. S. Wang; V. parvifolia Roxburgh; V. purani Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don; V. vulpina Linnaeus var. parvifolia (Roxburgh) Regel; V. wallichii Candolle.

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Vitis flexuosa is a species of liana in the grape family.

It has a very large native range in Asian tropical and temperate climate zones.

Vitis flexuosa là một loài thực vật hai lá mầm trong họ Nho. Loài này được Thunb. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1794.

葛藟葡萄（学名：Vitis flexuosa）是葡萄科葡萄属的植物。分布于中国大陆的广东、山东、四川、湖北、湖南、甘肃、河南、陕西、贵州、广西、江苏、江西、福建、云南、安徽、浙江等地，生长于海拔100米至2,300米的地区，多生在山坡、沟谷田边、灌丛中、草地或林中，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。