Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(14).Epilobium sinense Lévl.
✵The article gives records of the herb (14).Epilobium sinense Lévl., 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:(14).Epilobium sinense Lévl.
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 sinense is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, its latin name is Epilobium sinense Lévl., it is also known as the Chinese willow herb. Epilobium sinense Lévl is an endemic species of China.
Epilobium sinense is a perennial herb, often clustered, leafy roots grow from the base of the stem. Stems are cylindrical, it grows up to 50 cm in height, with dense leaves, obvious ridges, and curly hairs on them, the rest part is glabrous, leaves near the base are opposite, other leaves are alternate spiral, narrow spatulate (spoons-shaped), oblong-lanceolate or linear, 1.2~7 cm long, blunt apex, narrow cuneate (wedge-shaped) base, sparse teeth with inconspicuous convex, obvious midrib and pale white, 4~5 pairs of lateral veins, there are hairs on the veins and at the edge. The petiole is 0.2~1.1 cm long;
The inflorescence is upright, the capsular fruit is 2.2~5.5 cm long, brown, sparsely villous or glabrous; the carpopodium (fruit stalk) is 1.3~4 cm long; Seeds are oblong and obovoid, 1.2~1.3 mm long, with papillae; With a short rostrum (beak); The tassel is reddish, 6~8 mm long and easy to fall off; The flowering period is from June to August or September, and the fruiting period is from August to October or December.
Ecological environment: Epilobium sinense is indigenous to China, it grows in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and southwest; The plant grows on wetlands along rivers, gullies and ponds, wetlands on hillsides, and gullies, at areas with the latitude of 550~2,400 meters above sea level.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(14).Epilobium sinense Lévl.
✵The article gives records of the herb (14).Epilobium sinense Lévl., 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 sinense is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, its latin name is Epilobium sinense Lévl., it is also known as the Chinese willow herb. Epilobium sinense Lévl is an endemic species of China.
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