Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(4).Epilobium kermodei Raven.
✵The article gives records of the herb (4).Epilobium kermodei Raven., its English name, Latin name, common names, property and flavor, its botanical source plant species, with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of this plant species, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of this plant species.
Epilobium sect:(4).Epilobium kermodei Raven.
Introduction: Epilobium sect is a section in the Epilobium genus of the Onagraceae family (evening primrose family), perennial herbs, upright, ascending, or prostrate. Stems are cylindrical or quadrangular. Leaves are opposite (occasionally whorled) at least below inflorescence and alternate sparsely spirally (E. sinense H. Lev.). Flowers are actinomorphic, parallel to the stem axis when blooming; flower tube exists; petal apex is concave to deeply 2-lobed; stamens vary in length in 2 whorls, pollen grains are yellow, pollinated by quadruple pollen; style is always upright; stigma is usually entire, clavate to capitate, as long as or higher than stamens, sometimes 4-lobed and higher than stamens.
Botanical description: Epilobium kermodei Raven is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, its full name is Epilobium kermodei P.H. Raven, and it is commonly known as Sawtooth-leaf willow herb.
Epilobium kermodei Raven is a perennial herb, with root suckers of more than 10 cm long on the ground at the base of the stem, and terminal succulent overwintering buds; Stems grow as high as 1.2~2 meters, glandular hairs and mixed villous hairs, with inconspicuous ridge lines; Leaves are opposite, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, 3.5~11 cm long and 1.5~4.5 cm wide, the apex is sharp, the base is broadly cuneate or cuneate (wedge-shaped), with 28~60 pairs of sharp serrations, 5~6 pairs of lateral veins, densely villous on both veins; Petiole is 1~6 mm long.
The inflorescence is upright, initially nearly corymbose, then elongated, often densely glandular-hairy; The capsular fruit is 7~11 cm long, with villous and glandular hairs; The stalk length is 0.7~1.5 cm; Seeds are obovate, 0.8~1.2 mm long, with thick papillae and short rostrum (beak) at the top; The tassel is white, 5~6 mm long and easy to fall off; Its flowering period is from February to May or July, and fruiting from May to July or September.
Ecological environment: Epilobium kermodei Raven grows on open grassy slopes in middle and low-altitude mountainous areas, in wet places on both sides of river valleys and gullies, and beside lakes and ponds, in areas at altitudes of 1,800~3,800 meters, in China, it grows in west-south, the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze river.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(4).Epilobium kermodei Raven.
✵The article gives records of the herb (4).Epilobium kermodei Raven., its English name, Latin name, common names, property and flavor, its botanical source plant species, with a detailed introduction to the botanical features of this plant species, the growth characteristics, and ecological environment of this plant species.
Introduction: Epilobium sect is a section in the Epilobium genus of the Onagraceae family (evening primrose family), perennial herbs, upright, ascending, or prostrate. Stems are cylindrical or quadrangular. Leaves are opposite (occasionally whorled) at least below inflorescence and alternate sparsely spirally (E. sinense H. Lev.). Flowers are actinomorphic, parallel to the stem axis when blooming; flower tube exists; petal apex is concave to deeply 2-lobed; stamens vary in length in 2 whorls, pollen grains are yellow, pollinated by quadruple pollen; style is always upright; stigma is usually entire, clavate to capitate, as long as or higher than stamens, sometimes 4-lobed and higher than stamens.
Botanical description: Epilobium kermodei Raven is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, its full name is Epilobium kermodei P.H. Raven, and it is commonly known as Sawtooth-leaf willow herb.
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