Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Chamaenerion Sect:(2).Epilobium conspersum Hausskn.
✵The article gives records of the herb (2).Epilobium conspersum Hausskn., its English name, Latin name, common names, property and flavor, with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of the plant species, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of this plant species.
Introduction: Chamaenerion Sect: Chamaenerion Tausch is a section in the Epilobium genus of the Onagraceae family (evening primrose family), perennial herbs or subshrubs, upright, often clumps. Stems are terete. Leaves are spiral alternate, sparsely subopposite, or whorled. The flower is slightly bilaterally symmetrical, the lower pair of petals is slightly narrower than the upper one, and is perpendicular to the stem axis when blooming; the flower tube is absent; the petals are entire; Stamens are nearly equal in length, arranged in a whorl, pollen grains are blue to yellow, single pollen pollinates; style reflexes when flowering; stigma is deeply 4-lobed, somewhat higher than stamens, lobes open and unfold 2-3 days after flowering, and roll back when style becomes upright and withered.
Botanical description: Epilobium conspersum Hausskn is classified in Sect. Chamaenerion Tausch, the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, is commonly known as Reticulated willow herb. Its synonyms are Epilobium conspersum, Epilobium reticulatum, Chamaenerion reticulatum, Chamaenerion conspersum.
Epilobium conspersum Hausskn is a perennial herb; short root suckers grow from the root neck in autumn, stems grow up to 1.2 meters high, pubescent; leaves are spiral alternate, the leaves in the middle and upper part of the stem are narrow oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, 4.5~11 cm long, the apex is sharp or tapering, the base is cuneate, with a few tooth convexities, the upper veins are pubescent on both surfaces, the lateral veins are obvious, 4~5 pairs, the secondary veins and the veinlets are obvious, forming a fine network; the petiole is 1~3 mm long, pubescent;
Racemes are upright, densely pubescent; bracts are leaflike, less than half of leaf, nearly membranous; flowers are pendulous; pedicels are 1.5~4 cm long; disc diameter is 3~4.5 mm; sepals are oblong, 1.1~1.5 cm long, pubescent; petals pale reddish purple, the lower 2 petals are narrower, subcordate or suborbicular, 0.8~1.4 cm long, the ovary is purple, 1~2 cm long, densely covered with gray pubescent hairs, style is purple, lower part is densely villous, stigma is 4-parted;
Capsular fruit is 2.5~7.5 cm long, densely pubescent; carpopodium (fruit stalk) is 1.5~5 cm long; seeds are obovate-oblong, 1~1.2 mm long, with scaly papillae or inconspicuous reticulate, the apex is beaked; The tassels are 1~1.2 cm long, yellowish-brown, not easy to fall off; the flowering period is from July to September, and the fruiting period is from September to October.
Epilobium conspersum Hausskn is closely related to Epilobium speciosum Decne and Epilobium angustifolium L.
Ecological environment: Epilobium conspersum Hausskn grows in wet sandy land or stony gravel on mountain valley wetlands or open hillsides, in areas at altitudes of 3,000~4,700 meters.Epilobium conspersum Hausskn is a species of the China-Himalayan flora, it grows in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river, west south and southern Tibet of China; The plant also grows in Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Chamaenerion Sect:(2).Epilobium conspersum Hausskn.
✵The article gives records of the herb (2).Epilobium conspersum Hausskn., its English name, Latin name, common names, property and flavor, with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of the plant species, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of this plant species.
Introduction: Chamaenerion Sect: Chamaenerion Tausch is a section in the Epilobium genus of the Onagraceae family (evening primrose family), perennial herbs or subshrubs, upright, often clumps. Stems are terete. Leaves are spiral alternate, sparsely subopposite, or whorled. The flower is slightly bilaterally symmetrical, the lower pair of petals is slightly narrower than the upper one, and is perpendicular to the stem axis when blooming; the flower tube is absent; the petals are entire; Stamens are nearly equal in length, arranged in a whorl, pollen grains are blue to yellow, single pollen pollinates; style reflexes when flowering; stigma is deeply 4-lobed, somewhat higher than stamens, lobes open and unfold 2-3 days after flowering, and roll back when style becomes upright and withered.
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