Corydalis yanhusuo (Y.H.Chou & Chun C.hsu) W.T.Wang ex Z.Y.Su & C.Y.Wu

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Papaveraceae > Corydalis

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial. Tuber yellow, rounded, (0.5-)1-2.5 cm in diam. Stems erect, 10-30 cm, with 1 or sometimes 2 scale leaves, with 2 or often 3(or 4?) cauline leaves, scales and lower cauline leaves often with axillary tuber. Leaves biternate or nearly triternate; leaflets 2-2.5 cm × 5-8 mm, entire to deeply trifid with lanceolate entire acute segments; lowermost cauline leaf often long petiolate and vaginate at base. Raceme lax, 5-15-flowered; bracts lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 5-12 × 2-5 mm, margin entire, apex acute, sometimes lower bracts slightly divided. Pedicel ca. 10 mm at flowering, in fruit to 20 mm. Flowers amaranth. Sepals caducous, small. Outer petals with broad dentate limbs, emarginate with a mucro in notch; spur of upper petal upcurved, cylindric, 11-13 mm; nectary extended through ca. 1/2 of spur, apex obtuse; lower petal with short claw; inner petals 8-9 mm, claw longer than petal lobes. Stigma nearly orbicular, papillae longer than in preceding species. Capsule linear, 20-28 mm. Seeds in 1 row. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jun.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
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Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Not known
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses drug medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Corydalis yanhusuo world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:929107-1
WFO ID wfo-0000623057
COL ID YPPT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Corydalis yanhusuo Corydalis turtschaninovii f. yanhusuo