Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(23).Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat.
✵The article gives records of the herb (23).Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat., 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:(23).Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat.
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 pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat. is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family., it is also known as long-seed willow herb. The synonyms are Epilobium myokoense, Epilobium kiusianum, Epilobium axillare, Epilobium hakkodense, Epilobium arcuatum, Epilobium chrysocoma, Epilobium quadrangulum, Epilobium rouyanum, Epilobium oligodontum, Epilobium pyrricholophum var. curvatopilosum, Epilobium nakaianum, Epilobium myokense, Epilobium prostratum, Epilobium makinoense, Epilobium pyrricholophum f. kiusianum, Epilobium pyrricholophum var. anuoleucholophum.
Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat. is a perennial herb, slender overwintering creeping branches grow from the base of stems, without scaly buds at the branches; Stems grow up to 80 cm tall, cylindrical, often branched, densely villous and glandular-hairy; Leaves are opposite, densely arranged, longer than internodes, subsessile, ovate or broadly ovate, sometimes lanceolate at the upper part of the stem, 2~5 cm long, sharp at the apex or nearly blunt at the lower part, blunt or round at the base, sometimes nearly cordate, sharply serrated, 4~6 pairs of lateral veins, both surfaces and veins are villous, and mixed glandular hairs at the upper part of the stem.
The inflorescence is upright, capsular fruit is 3.5~7 cm long, glandular-hairy; the carpopodium (fruit stalk) length is 0.7~1.5 cm; Seeds are narrowly obovoid, 1.5~1.8 mm long, papillose; Apex is tapered, beaked; The tassel is reddish brown, 0.7~1.2 cm long and persistent; Its flowering period is from July to September and fruiting from August to November.
Ecological environment: Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat. grows in wet places along rivers, valleys, ponds, and paddy fields in mountainous areas, with the latitude of 150~1,770 meters above sea level; In China, the plant grows in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, southeast coast, it also grows in the Wusuli River area.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(23).Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat.
✵The article gives records of the herb (23).Epilobium pyrricholophum Franch. et Savat., 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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