Stephania, also known as small ivy. Perennial deciduous vines, up to 5 meters long. The whole plant is hairless. The root is cylindrical, the outer skin is dark brown, and the inner surface is yellow and white. The old stems are lignified, and the branchlets are slender and have straight stripes. Leaves alternate; The petiole is 5- 1cm long.

A nearly woody vine of Menispermaceae, which grows in wild shrubs or villages in Henan, Sichuan and some southern provinces of China, is characterized by peltate leaves and dense cymes. Male flowers have 6 or 8 sepals and 3 or 4 yellow petals, while female flowers have 3 or 4 sepals and petals. Drupe is red when it is ripe. People often call it Stephania or gold, which has medicinal and ornamental value. Today I will talk about some things about this plant.

Stephania is the official middle name, and this name is also a common name; Its aliases are Jin invariable, gold thread hanging turtle, gold thread lotus leaf, natural gypsum and so on. In plant taxonomy, it belongs to Stephania of Menispermaceae. There are 60 species of this genus in the world, and there are 39 species 1 variety in China, which are mainly distributed in the Yangtze River basin and southern provinces, with Yunnan and Guangxi being the most species.