Flora of North America species comparison

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Smilax pseudochina

bamboo vine, false chinaroot.
Habit Herbs.
Stems

annual, immature erect, older climbing, 1–2 m, occasionally branching, herbaceous, glabrous;

prickles absent.
Leaves

numerous, evenly distributed;

tendrils numerous, long, functional;

blade deltate-ovate, pandurate, or cordate-ovate, the larger hastate, thin, 5–12 × 2–5 cm, coriaceous, glabrous, glaucous abaxially, base truncate to subcordate;

apex round to cuspidate.
Umbels

solitary or in sets of 3, axillary to leaves, 10–35-flowered, loose, subglobose;

peduncle shorter than to 1.5 as long as subtending leaf.
Flowers

perianth greenish;

tepals 1.5–2.5 mm;

anthers equaling or slightly larger than filaments;

ovules (1–)2 per locule;

pedicel 0.3–1.5 cm.
Berries

blue to black, subglobose, 4–6 mm, glaucous.
2n

= 30.

Smilax pseudochina
Phenology Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat Bogs, wet woods, marshes, pocosins
Distribution
from FNA
DC; DE; GA; MD; NC; NJ; NY; PA; SC; VA
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Source FNA vol. 26, p. 475.
Parent taxa Smilacaceae > Smilax
Sibling taxa
S. auriculata, S. biltmoreana, S. bona-nox, S. californica, S. ecirrata, S. glauca, S. havanensis, S. herbacea, S. hugeri, S. illinoensis, S. jamesii, S. lasioneura, S. laurifolia, S. pulverulenta, S. pumila, S. rotundifolia, S. smallii, S. tamnoides, S. walteri
Synonyms Coprosmanthus tamnifolius, Nemexia tamnifolia, S. inermis, S. leptanthera, S. tamnifolia
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1031. (1753)
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