Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(31).Epilobium subcoriaceum Hausskn.
✵The article gives records of the herb (31).Epilobium subcoriaceum 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 subcoriaceum Hausskn is classified in the Epilobium genus, of the Onagraceae family, it is commonly known as coriaceous willow herb.
Epilobium subcoriaceum Hausskn is a perennial herb, with succulent scales and root suckers emerging from the ground at the base of the stem, and scales and leaves persisting at the base of the stem in the following year; the stem grows up to 45 cm, the lower part is often purple-red, with 2 or 4 ridges, obvious, and its surface is hairy, the rest are glabrous; the leaves are opposite, narrowly ovate or lanceolate, 1.5~5.5 cm long, the apex is sharp, the base is broadly cuneate, the margin is finely serrated, the lateral veins are 4~5 pairs, and the veins and margins are pubescent; the petiole is 1~2.5 mm long.
The inflorescence slightly droops before flowering; the flower more or less droops at the bud; the pedicle is 4~8 mm long; there is a ring of white hairs on the throat of the flower tube; sepals are lanceolate, carinate (cariniform), 3.5~6 mm long, petals are pink or rose-purple, obovate, 0.6~1.1 cm long, the apex is concave; the ovary is 1.5~2.5 cm long, pubescent and glandular hairs; style is glabrous or sparsely villous near the base; stigma is capitate, surrounded by outer anthers when flowering.
Capsular fruit is 3~7 cm long, with sparsely glandular hairs and pilose; fruit peduncle is 0.4~1.2 cm long; seeds are oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, 1.1~1.5 mm long, with thick papillae, the apex is slightly tapering, with the short rostrum (beak); tassels are dirty-white, 6~7 mm long, easy to fall off; the flowering period is from July to August, and the fruiting period is from August to September.
Ecological environment: Epilobium subcoriaceum Hausskn grows on gravels along both sides of streams in mountainous areas, lakeside, and wet places on barren slopes, in the area with the altitude of 2,400~3,700 meters, the plant is endemic to China, it grows in the west, west south, and Tibet of China.
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1.Introduction of Epilobium Herb in Epilobium sect:(31).Epilobium subcoriaceum Hausskn.
✵The article gives records of the herb (31).Epilobium subcoriaceum 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.
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