Rhamnus globosa Bunge

Oil extracted from the seeds is used for making lubricating oil. The bark, fruit, and roots are used for making a green dye.

Shrubs, rarely small trees, dioecious, 2-4 m tall, spinose, divaricate. Branchlets opposite or subopposite, gray-brown, terminating in a spine; young branches puberulent, glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite, rarely alternate, or fascicled on short shoots; stipules persistent, linear-lanceolate, puberulent; petiole 6-10 mm, densely pubescent; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially green, suborbicular, obovate-orbicular, or ovate-orbicular, rarely orbicular-elliptic, 1-6 × 1.2-4 cm, papery or thinly papery, abaxially throughout or on veins pubescent, adaxially initially densely pubescent, glabrescent, or only veins and margin becoming sparsely pubescent, lateral veins (2 or)3 or 4 pairs, prominent abaxially, impressed adaxially, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin irregularly crenate-serrate, apex acute or shortly acuminate, rarely rounded-obtuse. Flowers unisexual, 4-merous, usually few- to 20-fascicled on terminal branches or in leaf axils of lower parts of long shoots, rarely 2- or 3-fascicled in leaf axils of annual branches; petals, calyx, and pedicels sparsely puberulent. Pedicels 4-8(-10) mm. Style 2- or 3-fid or cleft to half. Drupe black at maturity, globose or obovoid-globose, often slightly asymmetric, 4-6 mm in diam., with persistent calyx tube at base, with 2(or 3) stones; fruiting pedicel 5-8 mm, sparsely pubescent. Seeds black-brown, shiny, abaxially or laterally with margined furrow extending over 3/5 of length. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Oct.

Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, S and W Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, SW Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi.

● Understories of forests and thickets, slopes; below 1600 m.

Rhamnus chlorophora Decaisne; R. globosa var. meyeri (C. K. Schneider) S. Y. Li & Z. H. Ning; R. meyeri C. K. Schneider.

Rhamnus globosa, the lokao, is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae.

Rhamnus globosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Táo. Loài này được Bunge miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1833.

圆叶鼠李（学名：Rhamnus globosa）为鼠李科鼠李属下的一个种。