Salacia polysperma Hu

Climbing shrubs, ca. 5 m tall; branches slender, brown-red when young, brown-gray at maturity, densely lenticellate, lenticels tumorlike, minute. Leaves alternate; petiole thick, up to 1 cm; leaf blade oblong or oblong-elliptic, (8-)10-25 × (2.5-)3-7 cm, thinly leathery, base subrounded to broadly cuneate, margin sinuate, weakly serrulate, apex shortly acuminate; midvein abaxially prominent, adaxially concave, lateral veins 9-11 pairs, obliquely ascendant, reticulate near margin, reticulate veins abaxially convex. Fascicles axillary, many flowered; peduncle up to 1 cm; petiole 5-7 mm. Flowers light green; sepals deltoid-orbicular, up to 1.5 mm, margin erose, apex obtuse; petals suborbicular, recurved. Disk cupular, subpentagonous, ca. 0.5 mm. Stamens 3; filaments very short, inserted at margin of disk; anthers forked, dehiscing horizontally. Ovary mostly concealed in disk; style terete. Berry up to 5 cm in diam., exocarp ligneous when dry, minutely verruciform or smooth, usually 12-seeded. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Oct-Nov.

Guangxi, S Yunnan.

● Montane sparsely wooded valleys; 500-1800 m.

Salacia polysperma subsp. verrucosorugosa H. W. Li.

Salacia polysperma là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Dây gối. Loài này được Hu miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1940.

多籽五层龙（学名：Salacia polysperma）为翅子藤科五层龙属下的一个种。