Glutinous rice dough, also known as glutinous rice grass, glutinous rice vine, glutinous rice stripe, red stone vine, raw pull, ramie, snake grass, small sticky medicine, etc., is a genus of plants of the nettle family glutinous rice dough, perennial herb, sometimes the base of the stem becomes woody.
Glutinous rice dough stems are vine-grown, paved or ascending, 50–100 (-160) cm long, 1–2.5 mm thick at the base, unbranched or branched, with a quadrangular upper part with short soft hairs.
Glutinous rice dough leaves are paired; Leaves are grassy or papery, broad lanceolate to narrow lanceolate, narrowly ovate, sparsely ovate or oval, long (1-2-) 3-10 cm, wide (0.7-) 1.2-2.8 cm, apical long tapering to short tapering, shallow heart-shaped or rounded at the base, full margin, slightly rough above, sparse short voodoo hairs or nearly glabrous, sparse or nearly hairless along the veins below, basal veins 3-5; Petiole length 1-4 mm; The leaves are drill-shaped and about 2.5 mm long. There are soft hairs on the dorsal veins, and the basal veins are 3 out, reaching the tip of the leaf to confluence.
The umbelliferations of glutinous rice clusters are axillary, usually amphoteric, sometimes unisexual, hermaphroditic, 2-9 m in diameter; The bracts are triangular and about 2 mm long. Male flowers: peduncle length 1-4 mm; The buds are about 2 mm in diameter and have sparse, long, soft hairs on the inner fold; Disc 5, meristem, inverted lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm long, short sharp tip at the apex; Stamens 5, filament strips, 2-2.5 mm long, anthers about 1 mm long; The degenerative pistils are extremely small and conical. Female flowers: the flowers are diamond-shaped and narrowly ovate, about 1 mm long, with 2 small teeth at the apex, sparse hairs, and the fruit stage is ovate, about 1.6 mm long, with 10 longitudinal ribs; The stigma is about 3 mm long and has dense hairs.
Glutinous rice balls are ovoidal, about 1.5 mm long, white or black, and shiny.
Glutinous rice dough is a plant of the genus Cranberry in the nettle family, which is used as a root, stem or leaf. In autumn, the roots are picked, washed and dried or milled; the stems and leaves can be harvested at any time.
Glutinous rice doughs grow in the shade and wetness of the valley forest, at the foot of the mountain. It is distributed in the area south of the Yangtze River in China.
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