Taxon: Akebia quinata (Thunb. ex Houtt.) Decne.

Common names:

• chocolate-vine   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• five-leaf akebia   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• fiveleaf   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• mu tong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• akébie à cinq feuilles   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• fingerblättrige Akebie   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• akebi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• eureumdeonggul   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• fembladig akebia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (but it can become invasive fide Dict Gard; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Henan, Hubei [e.], Hunan [e.], Jiangsu, Jiangxi [n.], Shandong, Sichuan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe [c.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe [c.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [lists as A. quinata Houtt.].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea. [lists as A. quinata (Thunb.) Decne.].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). [lists as A. quinata (Thunb.) Decne.].
• Pemberton, R. W. & N. S. Lee. 1996. Wild food plants in South Korea; market presence, new crops, and exports to the United States. Econ. Bot. 50:60.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Akebia quinata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Akebia quinata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Akebia quinata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Rajania quinata Thunb. ex Houtt. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Akebia quinata (Thunb. ex Houtt.) Decne.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

Ctrl P to print