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{{Short description|Species of plant}}
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| image = Schisandra arisanensis cheng.jpg
| genus = Schisandra
| species = arisanensis
| authority = Hayata
| subdivision = * ''Schisandra arisanensis arisanensis''
* ''Schisandra arisanensis viridis''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catalogue of Life - 2014 Annual Checklist :: Species details |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2014/details/species/id/16735081 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.catalogueoflife.org}}</ref>
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'''''Schisandra arisanensis''''' is a climber plant species that is native to [[China]] and [[Taiwan]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Schisandra arisanensis in Flora of China @ efloras.org |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200008485 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=www.efloras.org}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Schisandra arisanensis Hayata {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:555084-1 |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> It grows primarily in the [[Biome|temperate biome]].<ref name=":1"/><ref name = "source">Hassler M. (2019). World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (version Nov 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.</ref> The plant is known for its medicinal properties and its fruit is also edible.
== Features ==
The plants are glabrous throughout, with young branches lacking wings. The leaf-bearing branches are elongated. The [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]] is 1–3.4&nbsp;cm long, and the leaf blade is elliptic to ovate, 5–10.5(-12.5) × 2.5–7&nbsp;cm in size. The blade is papery to subleathery and not glaucous, with pale venation after drying. The secondary veins are 4–6 on each side of the midvein, and the base is cuneate to broadly cuneate and often ± decurrent on the petiole. The margin is denticulate to serrulate, and the apex is acuminate to long acuminate.<ref name=":0"/>
The flowers of ''Schisandra arisanensis'' are axillary to fugacious bracts at the base of young shoots or axillary to leaves, and solitary. The peduncle is 1.8-4.5&nbsp;cm (staminate) and 3.5–4&nbsp;cm (pistillate). The tepals are 5-8(-13), and the largest are 4-12 × 3.5-8.5&nbsp;mm in size. They come in shades of pale yellow, yellow, orange, reddish orange, or red.<ref name=":0"/>
The fruit of ''Schisandra arisanensis'' has a peduncle that is 4–8&nbsp;cm long and a torus that is 3.5-15.5&nbsp;cm in size.
The plant flowers from April to June and fruits from June to September.
''Schisandra arisanensis'' is found in forests and shrublands in [[Anhui]], [[Fujian]], [[Guangdong]], [[Guangxi Massacre|Guangxi]], [[Guizhou]], [[Hunan]], [[Jiangxi]], and [[Zhejiang]] of china as well as [[Taiwan]], at elevations ranging from 200 to 2300 m.
== Uses ==
''Schisandra arisanensis'' is used in [[Traditional Chinese medicine]].<ref name=":0"/> Its fruit is also edible and is commonly used in [[Chinese cuisine]].<ref name=":0"/>
== References ==
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[[Category:Flora of China]]
[[Category:Flora of Taiwan]]
[[Category:Schisandra|arisanensis]]