中文名（Chinese Name）：风车子
学名（Scientific Name）：Combretum alfredii Hance
英文名（English Common Name）：
别名（Chinese Common Name）：华风车子、使君子藤
异名（Synonym）：Combretum kwangsiense H. L. Li
科属（Family & Genus）：使君子科（Combretaceae）风车子属
形态特征（Description）：多枝直立或攀援状灌木，高约5米；树皮浅灰色，幼嫩部分具鳞片；小枝近方形、灰褐色，有纵槽，密被棕黄色的绒毛和有橙黄色的鳞片，老枝无毛。叶对生或近对生，叶片长椭圆形至阔披针形，稀为椭圆状倒卵形或卵形，长12-16(-20)厘米，宽4.8-7.3厘米，先端渐尖，基部楔尖，稀钝圆，全缘，两面无毛而稍粗糙，甚少在背面脉上有粗毛，在放大镜下密被白色、圆形、凸起的小斑点，背面具有黄褐色或橙黄色的鳞片，中脉在背面凸起，侧脉6-10对，稍广展，将达叶缘处弯拱而连结，脉腋内有丛生的粗毛，小脉显著，横生，平行，网脉疏生；叶柄长1-1.5厘米，有槽，具鳞片或被毛。穗状花序腋生和顶生或组成圆锥花 序，总轴被棕黄色的绒毛和金黄色与橙色的鳞片；小苞片线状，长约1毫米；花长约9毫 米；萼钟状，外面有黄色而有光泽的鳞片和被粗毛，长约3.5毫米，约为子房的2倍，萼齿4或5，三角形，直立，渐尖，长1.5毫米，内面具一柠檬黄色而有光泽的大粗毛环，毛生于广展的环带上，稀突出萼喉之上；花瓣长约2毫米，黄白色，长倒卵形，基部渐狭成柄，顶、端钝圆或稍短尖；雄蕊8，花丝长，伸出萼外甚长，生于萼管之基部，花丝基部扁宽向上渐狭，大部分与萼管合生，高出萼齿4.5毫米，花药椭圆形，药隔不突出；子房圆柱状，长约1.5毫米，基部略狭而平截，稍4棱形，有鳞片；花柱圆柱状，胚珠2颗，倒垂。果椭圆形，有4翅，轮廓圆形，近圆形或梨形，长1.7-2.5厘米，被黄色或橙黄色鳞片，翅纸质，等大，成熟时红色或紫红色，阔0.7-1.2厘米，两端钝圆或基部渐狭而呈楔尖；果柄长2-4毫米；种子1颗，纺锤形，有纵沟8条，通常长1.5厘米，径约4毫米。花期5-8月，果期9月开始。
分布（Distribution）：产江西、湖南、广东及广西，生于海拔200-800米的河边、谷地。
用途（Use）：
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 13 Page 317, 319
Combretum alfredii Hance, J. Bot. 9: 131. 1871.
风车子 feng che zi
Combretum kwangsiense H. L. Li. | Combretaceae  | Combretum
Lianas to 6 m tall. Bark grayish, young parts with scales. Branchlets together with petioles densely brownish yellow tomentose and orange-yellow scaly, glabrous when old. Leaves opposite or subopposite; petiole 7-15 mm; leaf blade usually elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 10-20(-25) × 4-11 cm, abaxially glabrous except for tufts of coarse hairs in axils of lateral veins, sometimes also coarsely hairy on veins, yellow-brown or orange-yellow scaly and green verruculose, adaxially glabrous and densely white verruculose, base cuneate, rarely obtuse-rounded, apex acuminate; lateral veins in 6-10 pairs. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, simple and compound, narrowly cylindric spikes 5-15 cm, often grouped at branchlet apex and forming a large panicle; axes brownish yellow tomentose and orange-yellow scaly; bracts persistent at anthesis, linear, ca. 1 mm. Flowers fragrant. Calyx tube in middle part funnelform, distally cupular, 5-7 mm, abaxially coarsely hairy and glossy yellow scaly, adaxially with a ring of dense, coarse hairs not or only slightly exserted; lobes 4, erect, deltoid or broadly triangular, 1-1.5 mm, apex acuminate. Petals 4, white or yellowish white, 1.5-2 mm, clawed; limb oblong-obovate, apex obtuse-rounded or slightly mucronate. Stamens 8, exserted, 4-4.5 mm. Fruit red or purple-red when mature, globose or oblate, 4-winged, 1.5-2.5 × 1.5-2.7 cm, glabrous, yellow or orange-yellow scaly. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Aug-Dec.
● Forests, woodlands, open thickets, valleys, river- and streamsides, swamps, plains; near sea level to 800 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, S Hunan (Yizhang), S Jiangxi (Longnan).
Plants of Combretum alfredii with simple spikes in the leaf axils may be difficult to separate from C. wallichii. The name C. kwangsiense was given to plants from Guangxi with fruit at the small end of the range of variation.
The fruit is edible.
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