''Vitis chunganensis'' is a species of
climbing vine
A vine (Latin ''vīnea'' "grapevine", "vineyard", from ''vīnum'' "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners. The word ''vine'' can also refer to such stems or runners themselve ...
in the
grape family native to
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
(
Anhui,
Fujian,
Guangdong,
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
,
Hunan,
Jiangxi, and
Zhejiang provinces).
[ In Chinese it is called ''dong nan pu tao'', or Southeast grape.][
Habitats include forests and ]shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
s, hillsides and valleys, especially those where streams are present, between 500 and 1400 meters above sea-level. Flowers appear from April to June, producing very dark, purple, globose berries, about 1 cm in diameter, from June through to August.[
It is traditionally used as folk medicine for the treatment of infectious hepatitis and physical
injury. It contains ]chunganenol
Chunganenol is a resveratrol hexamer found in ''Vitis chunganensis
''Vitis chunganensis'' is a species of climbing vine in the grape family native to China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces). In Chin ...
which is a resveratrol hexamer.[Chunganenol: An Unusual Antioxidative Resveratrol Hexamer from Vitis chunganensis. Shan He, Liyan Jiang, Bin Wu, Chang Li and Yuanjiang Pan, J. Org. Chem., volume 74, issue 20, pages 7966–7969 ]
References
chunganensis
Plants described in 1925
Flora of China
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