Hedera nepalensis K.Koch

Habit

Climbing shrub

Family Description

Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, rarely herbs; indumentum stellate, rarely simple. Leaves alternate or whorled, sometimes very large, pinnately or palmately compound, trifoliolate or simple sometimes palmately lobed. Flowers in umbels, umbels usually borne in panicles, perfect or unisexual, very often 5-merous, sometimes doubly so; pedicels often articulate at flower base. Calyx represented by small teeth around apex of ovary, sometimes obsolete. Petals mostly 5-10, sometimes coherent and falling together, valvate or sometimes imbricate. Stamens as many as and alternating with petals; anthers opening by slits. Ovary inferior2-5or-10-celled, each containing a solitary, pendulous ovule; styles as many as cells, distinct or connate, sometimes swollen at form a styopodium. Fruit a drupe or berry.

Genus Description

Unarmed climbing shrub, stems bearing adhesive rootlets. Leaves simple, sometimes lobed.Umbels few-flowered, borne in short panicles; pedicels not articulatd at base of ovary. Calyx rim subentire. Stamens 5. Ovary 5-celled, stigmas connate. Fruit berry-like.

Species description

Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate,5.5-11x3-6cm, acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, usually 3-lobed on prostrate rooting stems, unlobed on flowering stems, entire, glabrous. Umbels in terminal panicles 3-6cm,3-10(-24)-flowered, 2cm diameter; buds stellate-pubescent at first. Petals ovate, 3mm. Fruuit subglobose, 6-8mm diameter, orange.