Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(19).Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn.
✵The article gives records of the herb (19).Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn., 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:(19).Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn.
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 sikkimense Hausskn is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family., it is also known as the brown-scales willow herb or Asia-east willow herb. The synonyms are Epilobium alsinifolium, Epilobium squamosum, Epilobium trilectorum, Epilobium soboliferum, Epilobium sikkimense subsp. ludlowianum.
Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn is a perennial-tufted herb, which stands upright or rises, and thick succulent root suckers grow from or under the ground at the base of the stem. The next year, the scale leaves turn brown and coriaceous and persist at the base of the stem. Stems grow up to 25 cm or 60 cm tall, unbranched or sometimes branched, ridgelines 2, sometimes 4, villous on them, the rest is glabrous; Leaves are opposite, egg-shaped, oval or oblong-lanceolate, 0.8~1.5 or 7.5 cm long, gradually narrowing toward the lower part, usually as long as or shorter than internodes, with blunt or sharp apex, wide wedge-shaped or round base with serrations, 4~6 pairs of lateral veins, and villous on the veins and edges; the petiole is 1~3 mm long;
The inflorescence is often pendulous, beginning with bracts dense at the top of the stem; Upright or pendulous in bud; the pedicel length is 0.5~0.8 cm; The throat of the flower tube has a ring of long hair; Sepals are oblong-lanceolate, carinate (cariniform), 5.5~8 mm long; Petals are pink or rose-purple, wide obcordate or obovate, 0.7~1.4 cm long, concave apex; Ovary is 1.5~3.5 cm long, with curly pilose and glandular hairs. The style is usually sparsely spread with white hairs near the base, the stigma is head-shaped, and outer anthers surround it when it blooms.
The capsular fruit is 5~9 cm long, sparsely villous and glandular-hairy, and the stalk is 0.6~2.5 cm long; The seeds are narrowly obovoid, 1~1.3 mm long, with thick papillae; With a short rostrum (beak) at the top; The tassel is white, 6~8 mm long and easy to fall off; Its flowering period is from June to August and fruiting from August to September.
Ecological environment: Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn grows in grasslands, valleys, gravel fields in high mountain areas, and wet places of gravel fields on the outer edge of glaciers, in the area at altitudes of 2,400~4,700 meters above sea level; the plant grows in China, it also grows in South Asia, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, and northern Pakistan, etc.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(19).Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn.
✵The article gives records of the herb (19).Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn., 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 sikkimense Hausskn is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family., it is also known as the brown-scales willow herb or Asia-east willow herb. The synonyms are Epilobium alsinifolium, Epilobium squamosum, Epilobium trilectorum, Epilobium soboliferum, Epilobium sikkimense subsp. ludlowianum.
The inflorescence is often pendulous, beginning with bracts dense at the top of the stem; Upright or pendulous in bud; the pedicel length is 0.5~0.8 cm; The throat of the flower tube has a ring of long hair; Sepals are oblong-lanceolate, carinate (cariniform), 5.5~8 mm long; Petals are pink or rose-purple, wide obcordate or obovate, 0.7~1.4 cm long, concave apex; Ovary is 1.5~3.5 cm long, with curly pilose and glandular hairs. The style is usually sparsely spread with white hairs near the base, the stigma is head-shaped, and outer anthers surround it when it blooms.
Ecological environment: Epilobium sikkimense Hausskn grows in grasslands, valleys, gravel fields in high mountain areas, and wet places of gravel fields on the outer edge of glaciers, in the area at altitudes of 2,400~4,700 meters above sea level; the plant grows in China, it also grows in South Asia, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, and northern Pakistan, etc.
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