Sageretia hamosa (Wall.) Brongn.

Because this species is quite similar to Sageretia lucida, previous authors have misidentified it as the latter; however, the latter differs in having smaller leaves, with lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, adaxially not impressed, and rachis glabrous.

Shrubs evergreen, scandent, armed. Branchlets grayish brown or dark brown, with incurved, hooklike stout spines, glabrous or puberulent at base only, sometimes yellow-brown pubescent. Leaves alternate or subopposite; petiole 8-15(-17) mm, glabrous, sometimes yellow-brown pubescent; leaf blade adaxially shiny, oblong or narrowly elliptic, rarely ovate-elliptic, 9-15(-20) × 4-6(-7) cm, leathery, abaxially barbate at vein axils or sparsely pubescent, glabrescent, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, prominent abaxially, impressed adaxially, base rounded or subrounded, margin serrulate, apex caudate-acuminate, acuminate, or shortly acuminate. Flowers sessile, glabrous, usually 2- or 3-fascicled in lax terminal or axillary spicate panicles; rachis ca. 15 cm, brown or canescent tomentose or densely puberulent; bracts ovate, small, sparsely puberulent. Ovary 2-loculed, with 1 ovule per locule; style short; stigma capitate. Drupe subsessile, deep red or purple-black at maturity, subglobose, 7-10 × 5-7 mm, with 2 pyrenes, often white powdery. Seeds brown, flat, ca. 6 mm, emarginate at both ends, asymmetrical. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct.

Nepal, India, Ceylon.

Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, S Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam].

Forests or thickets on slopes, dense forests along canals; below 1600 m.

Sageretia hamosa is a shrub with grey-brown or dark brown branchlets studded with hook-like thorns It can be found in China provinces Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang (Chayu), S Yunnan (Mengla), Zhejiang; and in India, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Sageretia hamosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Táo. Loài này được (Wall.) Brongn. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1826.

钩刺雀梅藤（学名：Sageretia hamosa）为鼠李科雀梅藤属下的一个种。