Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(32).Epilobium kingdonii Raven.
✵The article gives records of the herb (32).Epilobium kingdonii 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:(32).Epilobium kingdonii 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 kingdonii Raven is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, it is commonly known as Nanous willow herb.
Epilobium kingdonii Raven is a perennial dwarf herb, often loosely clustered, with succulent root suckers grow from the ground at the base of the stem, with inconspicuous scale leaves at the base of the stem in the following year; stems are 8~25 cm high, ascending, unbranched, pubescent on the upper part, and pubescent on the lower part with 2 distinct ridges, on which there are curly pubescent hairs, and the rest are glabrous; the leaves are opposite, ovate, equal to or slightly longer than the internodes, 0.8~2.7 cm long, 0.4~1.6 cm wide, the apex is sharp, the base is cuneate, shallowly serrate, lateral veins 3-5 pairs, sparsely pubescent on veins and margins; sessile.
The inflorescence has several flowers, covered with pilose and glandular hairs; the flowers are nearly upright, the pedicels are 0.4~1 cm long; there is a ring of long hairs at the throat of the flower tube; the sepals are lanceolate-oblong, 4~5 mm long, mixed with glands hairs and curly hairs; petals are rose-purple, obcordate, 7~8 mm long, apex concave; the ovary is 1.4~1.8 cm long, covered with curly hairs and glandular hairs; style near the base is covered by sparsely white hairs, stigma capitate, surrounded by outer anthers; capsular fruit is 3.5~5.5 cm long, nearly glabrous; carpopodium (fruit stalk) is 0.4~1.2 cm long; seeds are narrowly obovate, 1.4~1.6 mm long, with tiny papillae; apex has short rostrums (beaks); tassels are dirty-white, 5~7 mm long, and fall off easily.
Ecological environment: Epilobium kingdonii Raven grows in river valleys, grasslands beside streams and ditches, and wet shrubs, in areas at altitudes of 3,300~3,700 meters, the plant is endemic to China, it grows in west south, the upper reaches of the Yangtze river, and southeastern Tibet of China.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(32).Epilobium kingdonii Raven.
✵The article gives records of the herb (32).Epilobium kingdonii 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.
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