Epimedium rhizomatosum Stearn

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Berberidaceae > Epimedium

Characteristics

Herbs, 38-42 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, elongated, ca. 8 cm or longer, slender, 1.5-2 mm in diam. Leaves basal and cauline, trifoliolate; leaflets adaxially green, narrowly ovate, 4-6 × 2-3 cm, leathery, abaxially glaucous, with scattered minute erect hairs, adaxially glabrous, base shallowly cordate, with narrow sinus and basal lobes rounded or acute, lateral leaflets conspicuously oblique with outer lobe large, inner lobe smaller, margin closely spinulose-subserrulate, apex acuminate. Flowering stem with 2 opposite or alternate leaves. Panicle 5-30-flowered, 9-30 cm, with lower peduncles 2-5-flowered. Pedicel 1.5-2 cm, glandular hairy. Flowers large, 4-6 cm in diam. Outer sepals caducous, white with purple tinge, ca. 4 mm; inner sepals appressed, white or reddish, narrowly ovate, ca. 6 × 2.5 mm, apically acute. Petals pale yellow, much longer than inner sepals; spur curved, subulate, elongated, 2-3.5 cm, lamina-less. Stamens nearly enclosed, pale yellow, ca. 3.5 mm; filaments ca. 1.5 mm; anthers ca. 2 mm, valved. Pistil ca. 4.3 mm. Capsules ca. 2.5 cm; style ca. 7 mm. Fl. Apr, fr. Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.24 - 0.46
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
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Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-8

Usage

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

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Epimedium rhizomatosum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1000387-1
WFO ID wfo-0000670073
COL ID 6G6LH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Epimedium rhizomatosum