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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'']