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Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Anemarrhena

Characteristics

Rhizome to 10 × 0.5--1.7 cm. Leaves 10--60 × 0.15--1 cm, glabrous, margin scabrid. Scape (20--)35--100 cm, glabrous. Raceme 10--50 cm; bracts ovate or ovate-orbicular, apex often long acuminate. Perianth segments pink, pale purple, or white, linear or narrowly oblong, 5--10 × 1--1.5 mm, persistent in fruit. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. Style ca. 1 mm. Capsule 0.8--1.5 × 0.3--0.6 cm including beaked apex, prominently 6-angled. Seeds black, narrowly oblong-elliptic, slightly curved, 7--12 × 2.5--3 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun--Sep. 2 n = 22*.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year and has rhizomes or underground stems. The rhizomes are 10 cm long by 0.5-1.7 cm wide. The leaves develop from the base and are grass like. They are 10-60 cm long by 0.15-1 cm wide. The scape is 35-100 cm long. The flowers are pink, purple or white. The fruit is a capsule which is 0.8-1 cm long by 0.3-0.6 cm wide. It has 6 prominent angles. The seeds are black.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0
Mature height (meter) 0.5
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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AprMayJun
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Mountain woodlands. Exposed slopes and hills. Scrub, grassy slopes, steppes, sunny and sandy hillsides; at elevations from near sea level to 1,500 metres.
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A cool temperate plant. It grows in scrub and grassy slopes in sunny places and on sandy hillsides from sea level to 1500 m in N China. In Sichuan.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses environmental use food medicinal oil
Edible roots
Therapeutic use Anti-bacterial agents (rhizome), Antifungal agents (rhizome), Anti-infective agents, local (rhizome), Anti-inflammatory agents (rhizome), Antineoplastic agents (rhizome), Antipyretics (rhizome), Astringents (rhizome), Diabetes mellitus (rhizome), Diuretics (rhizome), Expectorants (rhizome), Fertility agents, female (rhizome), Hypnotics and sedatives (rhizome), Hypoglycemic agents (rhizome), Laxatives (rhizome), Neurotic disorders (rhizome), General tonic for rejuvenation (rhizome), Platelet aggregation inhibitors (rhizome), Antiphlogistic (unspecified), Antipyretic (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Eruption (unspecified), Expectorant (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hyperglycemia (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Refrigerant (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Sweating (unspecified), Thirst (unspecified), Vertigo (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Dysuria (unspecified), Ejaculation (unspecified), Febrifuge (unspecified), Lenitive (unspecified), Lumbago (unspecified), Tinnitus (unspecified), Asthma (unspecified), Bronchitis (unspecified), Oral ulcer (unspecified), Tuberculosis (unspecified), Ulcer (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -5
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Anemarrhena asphodeloides unspecified picture

Distribution

Anemarrhena asphodeloides world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Montenegro, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:530140-1
WFO ID wfo-0000760083
COL ID DWTH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Terauchia anemarrhenifolia Anemarrhena asphodeloides
WorldFloraDB 2024