Vitis hui Cheng

Plants polygamo-dioecious. Branchlets terete, with longitudinal ridges, densely pubescent and sparsely lanate; tendrils unbranched or mixed with bifurcate ones. Leaves simple; stipules ovate-elliptic, 2-3 × 1.5-2 mm, subglabrate, subentire, apex obtuse; petiole 5-10 mm, densely pubescent and lanate; leaf blade oval or ovate-elliptic, 3-5.5 × 2-4 cm, abaxially densely lanate with gray hairs and pubescent with short hairs, adaxially densely pubescent and sparsely lanate, basal veins 5, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, veins densely pubescent and with sparse arachnoid tomentum, veinlets densely tomentose and pubescent abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, base cordate, notch acute, margin with sharp teeth, apex acute or acuminate. Panicle leaf-opposed, 2-8.5 cm, basal branches short; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm, densely pubescent. Pedicels 1-1.5 mm, densely pubescent. Buds obovoid, 1.5-2 mm, apex rounded. Calyx ca. 0.2 mm, glabrous, 5-lobed. Filaments filiform, 1-1.2 mm; anthers yellow, oblong, ca. 0.5 mm. Ovary abortive in male flowers. Fl. May, fr. Jul.

Jiangxi, Zhejiang.

● Shrublands, fields; 100-200 m.

Vitis hui is a species of plant in the grape family. It is native to Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in China, where it is called lu shan pu tao, meaning Mount Lushan grape. It grows in temperate climes, at elevations between 100 and 200 meters in shrublands and along the edges of open meadows.

Vitis hui flowers in May, bearing its fruit in July. It forms non-functional ovaries in male flowers.