puberulous

axis and rachis very slender, puberulous, pedicels usually without setae, those of a pair often partially connate.

Culms rambling or climbing, up to 15 m long, branched, glabrous to puberulous or hispid, terete, solid.

pedicels slightly or not exceeding leaves, slender, puberulous or subglabrous, 2-bracteolate at or slightly below middle; bracteoles linear.

Inflorescence terminal, an umbellate or cymose panicle, 3(-7)-flowered, ferruginous puberulous and with glandular trichomes.

Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as hypanthium, outside glabrous or puberulous, margin sparsely minutely serrate near apex.

Hypanthium funnel-shaped, ca. 5 mm, puberulous and with sparse glandular trichomes.

Inflorescences terminal, umbellate cymes or umbellate, 3-7 cm, puberulous and with sparse glandular trichomes.

Young twigs, pedicels, bracts, and bracteoles densely puberulous; leaf blade glabrous on both surfaces.

Culm sheaths thin; glumes and lemma densely glaucous, sparsely puberulous or nearly glabrous.

Stem erect, terete, much-branched, usually puberulous, rarely glabrous.

Spikelets brown, obovate; upper glume puberulous, fringed only above middle.

Stipules caducous, reddish brown, broadly ovate or triangular-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, membranous, puberulous.

Vines woody. Branches shallowly grooved, sparsely puberulous at nodes, elsewhere glabrous.

buds purplish brown, ovoid, glabrous or only terminal scales puberulous at margin.

branchlets 4-sided, puberulous and with sparse glandular trichomes.

pedicels usually exceeding leaves, slender, puberulous, with 2 linear bracteoles above middle or near flower.

Petioles and leaf blades puberulous; capsules glabrous.

Hypanthium funnel-shaped, ca. 4 mm, 4-sided, puberulous and with glandular trichomes.

Petiole puberulous, glabrescent; leaf blades puberulous; stamens equal in length.

Stem erect, few branched or unbranched, green when young, dark with age, puberulous.

Leaf blade glabrous or puberulous along veins or margin; sepals and ovary glabrous.

Shrubs scandent. Branchlets spreading, green or yellow-green, brown puberulous.

Sepals linear, ca. 5 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, apex acute, basal auricles very short, apex truncate.

Stems usually 4-sided, narrowly winged when young, slightly setose and puberulous on wings otherwise glabrous, often subterete when mature.

Branchlets, petioles, and both surfaces of leaflets densely puberulous.

Abaxial leaf surface puberulous, with scales uniform in size.

buds ovoid, small, with several scales, glabrous or puberulous on scale margin, apex subobtuse or acute.

Male perianth tube funnelform, puberulous, apex 5-lobed, lobes short triangular.

Pedicel ca. 2 mm, articulate, sparsely puberulous below articulation.

Petals pink, red, or dark red, ovate, apex apiculate and puberulous.

leaf blade reniform, abaxially glabrous except along veins, adaxially sparsely puberulous.

Vines woody. Branches shallowly longitudinally 10-grooved, puberulous.

bracts linear-lanceolate, often 3-lobed, brownish puberulous.

Petals as many as calyx lobes, outside densely puberulous, apically dentate.

Abaxial surfaces of leaf blades along veins and branchlets puberulous.

Hypanthium campanulate to cup-shaped, ca. 2 mm, outside glabrous or puberulous.

Vines woody. Branches shallowly 10-grooved, puberulous, glabrescent.

lobes linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm wide, sparsely puberulous outside, copiously white farinose inside.

The leaf blade is adaxially sometimes densely white puberulous, but often subglabrous or glabrous.

Stems 10-50 cm tall, stiff, simple or branched, densely strigillose, sometimes also villous, glandular puberulous on inflorescence.

Vines woody. Branches longitudinally 6- or 7-grooved, sparsely puberulous.

Pedicel ca. 1 mm but 2-3 mm in fruit, puberulous and with sparse glandular trichomes.

Calyx cupular; lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm, puberulous.

Sepals 5, broadly elliptic, obovate, or obovate-oblong, ca. 2. 5 mm, both sides usually glabrous, outside rarely sparsely puberulous.

Winter buds needle like, ca. 2 mm, appressed pale brown puberulous.

Branches shallowly 5-grooved, sparsely puberulous or glabrous.

Leaf blade abaxially uniformly puberulous; disk scales 3, broadly ovate.

Leaves undivided or with 1 lobule on each side near base, subglabrous or sparsely puberulous.

Vines woody. Branches shallowly ca. 6-grooved, densely puberulous.

Hypanthium funnel-shaped, 5-9 mm, puberulous and sparsely glandular hirsute.

Vines woody. Branches shallowly 4--6-grooved, appressed puberulous, often glabrescent.

Sepals ovate-lanceolate, puberulous along veins abaxially, basal auricles 2-3 mm, apex enlarged, dentate.

Calyx cupular; lobes triangular-lanceolate, ca. 1. 5 mm, puberulous.

Leaf blade abaxially subglabrous, or sparsely puberulous only along midvein and lateral veins.

Sepals 5, lanceolate, abaxially glandular or not, adaxially sparsely puberulous, irregularly 2- or 3-pinnately lobed, apex long acuminate.

Branches indistinctly 6-angulate, flat or shallowly 6-grooved, puberulous or glabrous.

Fruiting pedicel ca. 2 cm, puberulous.

Styles 3 or 4; leaf blade abaxially puberulous; hypanthium and pedicel sparsely pubescent.

Panicles 11-27(-45) cm, densely gray puberulous, open, sparsely flowered.

Young shoots densely gray-puberulous, drying brown to blackish; leaf blade ovate to elliptic; fruit ovoid, 2. 4-3. 4 cm.

Inflorescences terminal and axillary, cymose or contracted to subumbellate, (2. 5-)3. 5-6 cm, densely puberulous or glabrous.

Hypanthium cylindric, 5-8 mm, apically barely 8-ribbed, puberulous or glabrous.

Stem usually 2-4 fasciculate, erect, 10-40 cm tall, glabrous or white puberulous in upper part.

Capsule oblong, 5-7 mm, 3-4 mm in diam. , with remains of styles at apex, puberulous or glabrous.

Capsule oblong, 0. 8-1 cm, ca. 4 mm in diam. , densely brown dotted and sparsely puberulous.

Branchlets puberulous 4-winged, wings 1-4 mm wide.

Leaf sheaths puberulous and with tubercle-based hairs, one margin ciliate;

rachis and petiole glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent and puberulous, sparsely shortly prickly;

Leaf sheaths usually shorter than internodes, densely puberulous or basal sheaths glabrous;

pedicels long, equaling or exceeding leaves, slender, usually glabrous, sometimes puberulous in lower part, 2-bracteolate near middle;

Branchlets arched, laxly branched, yellowish or purple-yellowish, grooved, puberulous;

Vines woody. Branches subterete, not grooved, smooth, sparsely puberulous only at nodes, glabrous elsewhere;

Branchlets initially dark green, purple or purplish brown when old, terete, initially puberulous, glabrous when old;

external ligule white-gray puberulous, sparsely white powdery;

lower glume firmly membranous, shallowly convex, scaberulous or puberulous toward apex varying to appressed-pubescent throughout;

pedicel slightly longer than the hooked peduncle, puberulous ;

Foliage leaves: sheaths puberulous when young;

Branchlets purplish brown or dark brown when old, terete, puberulous when young, glabrous when old;

ovary long ovoid, glabrous or puberulous, ovary wall very thin;

petioles of basal leaves to 8 cm, those of cauline leaves shorter, puberulous;

Calyx yellowish green, salverform-cylindric, 8-10 mm, exterior sparsely puberulous;

Vines woody. Branches very shallowly 4-grooved, glabrous or only sparsely puberulous on nodes;

pedicels longer, sometimes to 15 cm, glabrous or puberulous, 2-bracteolate above middle;

leaf buds falcate, buds and young twigs densely gray puberulous. Stipules 2-6 cm, densely, shortly dark grayish or dark yellow puberulous;

Calyx tubular, 7--9 mm, glandular puberulous, parted slightly below middle;

petiole ca. 7 mm, yellow-brown puberulous when young, sparsely puberulous when old;

petioles of basal leaves longer, 5-15 cm, puberulous or glabrous, narrowly winged;

Stems terete or obtusely 4-sided to subterete, densely setose and puberulous, glabrescent or glabrous when older;

Calyx campanulate, 5--7(--8) mm, puberulous or with few long hairs, parted to middle or below;

petiole 10-40 cm, subglabrous or sparsely puberulous near apex, unarmed;

pedicels much exceeding leaves, 2. 5-6 cm, slender, sparsely puberulous, 2-bracteolate above middle;

inflorescence lax, 1. 5-3(-5) cm, paniculate or racemose-paniculate, often yellow puberulous;

Calyx tubular, 0. 8--1. 2 cm, puberulous outside, densely white farinose inside, parted to below middle;

petiole 3-4 cm, to 12 cm at fruiting, puberulous, narrowly winged;

Corolla dark purple, campanulate, 1. 5--2. 5 cm, glabrous or puberulous outside;

petiole 1. 7--8 cm, sparsely to densely puberulous or subglabrous;