Schisandra pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Schisandraceae. It is a climbing plant with papery leaves, cream, yellow, orange, or red flowers, and orange-red fruits. The species is native to China, and was described in 1906.
Taxonomy Schisandra pubescens was formally described in 1906, by William Botting Hemsley and Ernest Henry Wilson.
Distribution Schisandra pubescens is native to the temperate biome of Sichuan, Chongqing, and Hubei, south-central China. It grows at the margins of forests and shrubberies, in forests, and in thickets, at elevations of .
Description Schisandra pubescens is a climbing plant with angular purple stems. The leaf-bearing branches are elongated. The leaves are papery, elliptical to ovate, long, and wide. The leaf margins are toothed. The leaf stems are long.
The flowers are about across, and solitary. The stems of male flowers are long, and the stems of female flowers are long. The flowers have seven or eight tepals, which are cream, yellow, orange, or red. The largest tepals are long, and wide. The male flowers have fourteen to twenty-four stamens, and the female flowers have forty to sixty-two carpels. The plant flowers from May to July.
The fruit stems are long. The fruits are orange-red, and the carpels have one or two orange seeds. The plant fruits from June to September. The seed case is smooth. The seeds are long.
Uses Schisandra pubescens is used in medicine.
Names In Chinese, the species is known as ().
References