Chrysosplenium lanuginosum Hook.F. & Thomson

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Saxifragaceae > Chrysosplenium

Characteristics

Herbs 7-22 cm tall. Rhizomes to 20 cm. Sterile branches arising from basal leaf axils, 5-25 cm, brown villous. Stems brown pilose or subglabrous. Basal leaves with petiole 0.8-5 cm, sometimes only 4-6 mm, brown villous; leaf blade ovate or broadly so to subelliptic, 0.4-4.5 × 0.3-2.9 cm, both surfaces and margin ± brown pilose, sometimes densely brown crisped villous adaxially, base usually broadly cuneate, rarely subcordate, margin obscurely 9-17-undulate-crenate or shallowly 5-8-dentate, teeth retuse and 1-verrucose at apex. Cauline leaves 1-3, alternate; petiole 0.5-1.7 cm, brown villous; leaf blade broadly ovate or flabellate to elliptic, 2-10 × 1.6-10 mm, both surfaces and margin ± brown pilose, sometimes glabrous abaxially, base cuneate, margin 5-9-crenate. Cyme 5-9.5 cm, remotely flowered; branches glabrous or pilose; bracteal leaves with petiole 1.5-7 mm, glabrous or pilose, leaf blade obliquely broadly ovate or subflabellate to obovate, 3-11 × 4-12 mm, glabrous on both surfaces, but brown pilose adaxially on most proximal leaf, base broadly cuneate to truncate, margin 5-11-crenate, teeth sometimes with 1 brown hair at apex. Flowers green, 4.2-6.2 mm in diam. Sepals spreading, brown spotted, broadly ovate to broadly reniform-orbicular, 1.5-2.2 × 2.2-3 mm, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate, sometimes retuse and then margin sparsely brown ciliate. Stamens 8, ca. 0.8 mm. Ovary subinferior; styles 0.6-0.7 mm. Disc obsolete, surrounded by brown papillae. Capsule 3.2-3.5 mm, apex subtruncate, retuse; carpels subequal; rostrums ca. 0.8 mm. Seeds dark brown, subovoid, 0.6-1 mm, papillose. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.22
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Chrysosplenium lanuginosum world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:790614-1
WFO ID wfo-0000604007
COL ID V22B
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Synonyms

Saxifraga adoxoidea Chrysosplenium adoxoides Chrysosplenium henryi Chrysosplenium lanuginosum Chrysosplenium dunnianum Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. dunnianum Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. yunnanense Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. lanuginosum

Lower taxons

Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. ciliatum Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. formosanum Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. gracile Chrysosplenium lanuginosum var. pilosomarginatum