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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Decumaria''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cornales]]
| familia = [[Hydrangeaceae]]
| genus = '''''Decumaria'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
''Decumaria barbara''<br/>
''Decumaria sinensis''
}}

'''''Decumaria''''' ('''woodvamp''') is a genus of two species of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Hydrangeaceae]], one (''D. barbara'') native to the southeastern [[United States]], and the other (''D. sinensis'') native to central [[China]].

They are [[shrub]]by [[liana]]s growing to 4-10 m high through shrubs and trees, climbing by means of aerial adhesive rootlets. The [[leaf|leaves]] are variably [[deciduous]] to [[evergreen]] (with ''D. barbara'' tending to be more often deciduous, ''D. sinensis'' more evergreen), 3-10 cm long, ovate with an acute apex, and a smooth to obscurely toothed margin. The [[flower]]s are 5-10 mm diameter, white to creamy colored, fragrant, produced in dense [[panicle]]s 3-8 cm broad. The [[fruit]] is a dry [[capsule (fruit)|capsule]] containing several [[seed]]s.

==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?3455 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Decumaria'']
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=109459 Flora of China: ''Decumaria'']

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		+	Decumaria (Latin, decumus, tenth, referring to the number of the parts of the flower). Saxifragaceae. Climbing shrubs, cultivated for their handsome glossy foliage and clusters of attractive white flowers.
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		+	Climbing by aerial rootlets: lvs. deciduous, opposite, petioled: fls. in terminal peduncled corymbs, small, white, perfect; sepals and petals 7-10; stamens 20-30: fr. a 5-10-celled ribbed caps, opening between the ribs, with numerous minute seeds.—One species in E. N. Amer. and one in China.
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		+	These are ornamental climbing shrubs with handsome glossy foliage and fragrant white flowers, forming a corymb of feathery appearance, well adapted for covering walls, rocks, trellis work and trunks of trees; tender, but the American species survives in sheltered positions as far north as Massachusetts, while the Chinese is more tender. They thrive in almost any humid soil. Propagation is by greenwood cuttings in summer under glass, rarely by seeds.
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		+	D. sinensis, Oliv. Very similar to the preceding; less high: lvs. generally oblong, obtuse or obtusish, 1½-3 in. long and H-l in. broad: pedicels appressed-pubescent. Cent. China. H.I. 18:1741. Alfred Rehder.
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Decumaria - Revision history

Silparaja at 10:52, 29 August 2009

Raffi at 02:32, 24 January 2008