Bupleurum yunnanense Franch.

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Bupleurum

Characteristics

Plants 12–35 cm, perennial. Taproot fusiform, vertical, thickened, often branched. Stems several, slender, erect, base without fibrous remnant sheaths. Lower leaves sessile; blade linear, 4–8 × 0.15–0.4 cm, base clasping. Middle leaves sessile; blade lanceolate, 5–10 × 0.3–0.7 cm, 9–15-nerved, base rounded, embracing, apex caudate. Upper leaves small, ovate-lanceolate. Umbels few, 1.5–2.7 cm across; bracts 2–4, ovate-lanceolate, 0.2–2.5 mm, unequal; rays (2–)3–5(–7), 3–25 mm, unequal; bracteoles 5, elliptic, 3–5 × 1–2 mm, equal, apex acuminate, about 1.5–2 times as long as flowers; umbellules ca. 10 mm across, 8–14-flowered; pedicels ca. 2 mm. Petals yellow or purplish. Stylopodium low-conic, discoid, yellow or purplish. Fruit oblong, gray-brown, ca. 2.5 × 1.1 mm; ribs prominent, narrowly winged; vittae 3 in each furrow, 4 on commissure. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.19 - 0.3
Root system tap-root
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Environment

Mountain slopes; at elevations from 2,500-5,000 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Bupleurum yunnanense world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:839466-1
WFO ID wfo-0000575951
COL ID NVYD
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Synonyms

Bupleurum yunnanense