《中国植物志》|| 鼠李科 RHAMNACEAE ||枣族 Trib. ZIZIPHEAE Brongn. ||猫乳属 Rhamnella Miq.

7.猫乳属*——Rhamnella Miq.
Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 30: 1867.——Microrhamnus auct. non A. Gray. : Maxim. in Men. Acad. sci. st. Petersb. ser. 7, 10: 4. 1866.
落叶灌木或小乔木。叶互生，具短柄，纸质或近膜质，边缘具细锯齿，羽状脉；托叶三角形或披针状条形，常宿存与茎离生。腋生聚伞花序，具短总花梗，或数花簇生于叶腋；花小，黄绿色，两性，5基数，具梗；萼片三角形，无网状脉，中肋内面凸起，中下部有喙状突起；花瓣倒卵状匙形或圆状匙形，两侧内卷；雄蕊背着药，花丝基部与爪部离生，披针状条形；子房上位，仅基部着生于花盘，1室或不完全2室，有2胚珠，花柱顶端2浅裂。花盘薄，杯状，五边形。核果圆柱状椭圆形，桔红色或红色，成熟后变黑色或紫黑色，顶端有残留的花柱，基部为宿存的萼筒所包围，1-2室，具1或2种子。
属的模式种：猫乳R. franguloides (Maxim.) Weberb.
本属共7种，分布于中国、朝鲜和日本。我国均产。

《云南植物志》|| 鼠李科 Rhamnaceae ||鼠李科 Rhamnaceae ||猫乳属 Rhamnella Miq.

7.猫乳属 Rhamnella Miq.
落叶灌木或小乔木。叶互生，边缘具细锯齿，羽状脉；托叶常宿存，与茎离生。腋生聚伞花序，具短总花梗，或数花簇生叶腋；花小，黄绿色，两性，5基数，具梗；萼片三角形，无网状脉，中肋内面凸起，中下部有喙状突起；花瓣倒卵状匙形，两侧内卷；雄蕊背着药，花丝基部与爪部离生；子房上位，仅基部着生于花盘，1室或不完全2室，有2胚珠，花柱先端2浅裂；花盘薄，杯状，五边形。核果圆柱状椭圆形，橘红色或红色，熟后变紫黑色或黑色，先端有残存的花柱，基部为宿存的萼筒所包围，1-2室，具1或2种子。
近10种，分布于西喜马拉雅至日本、巴布亚新几内亚、澳大利亚的昆士兰、斐济。 我国有7种，主产长江以南地区；云南有4种。

《Flora of China》|| Rhamnaceae || ||猫乳属 Rhamnella

6. Rhamnella Miquel, Prolus. Fl. Jap. 218; Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi. 3: 30. 1867.

猫乳属 mao ru shu

Chaydaia Pitard.

Shrubs or small trees, rarely scandent, evergreen to mostly deciduous. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate; stipules narrowly triangular or lanceolate, often persistent; leaf blade papery or submembranous, pinnately veined, margin serrulate. Flowers yellow-green, small, bisexual, 5-merous, pedicellate, in shortly pedunculate axillary cymes, or fascicled in axils of leaves. Calyx tube cup-shaped; lobes triangular, midvein adaxially keeled and with centrally inserted beaklike protrusion. Petals ovate-spatulate or orbicular-spatulate, ± distinctly cucullate, enfolding stamens. Stamens dorsifixed; filaments free from claw at base, lanceolate-linear. Disk pentagonous, thin, lining calyx tube, nectariferous. Ovary superior, base slightly immersed in disk, 1- or 2-loculed or imperfectly 1-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles terminally 2-fid. Drupe yellowish to orange, turning black or purple-black when ripe, cylindric-ellipsoidal base with persistent remnants of calyx tube, with rudimentary style at apex, 1- or 2-loculed, with 1 or 2 seeds.

Eight species: China, Japan, Korea; eight species (five endemic) in China.