| Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
| Genus species | Ephedra sinica Stapf |
| Bibliography | Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1927: 133 (1927) |
| Native Range | s. Siberia to n. & ne China |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | sands |
| Altitude | 700-1600m |
| Description | branchlets erect, internodes 3-4cm, leaves opposite, connate, free part subulate to narrowly triangular, sharply acute, fruits red, carnose, oblong-ovoid to suborbiculate |
| Size | 10-40cm |
| Color | yellowish |
| Bloom | early summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring layering in spring |
| Synonyms | Ephedra flava F.P.Sm. Ephedra ma-huang Tang S.Liu |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita) 31 Russian Far East (PRM Primorye) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central) 37 Mongolia |