Lysimachia fortunei Maxim.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Lysimachia

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, glabrous, 30--70 cm tall. Rhizomes creeping, reddish. Stems erect, terete, usually simple, glabrescent, black glandular punctate. Leaves alternate, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4--11 X 1--2.5 cm, with many scattered glandular dots, slightly raised when dry, base attenuate, apex short acuminate. Racemes 10--20 cm; bracts lanceolate, 2--3 mm. Pedicel ca. as long as to slightly shorter than bracts. Calyx lobes ovate-elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm, ciliate, thick black glandular, margin membranous, apex obtuse. Corolla white, ca. 3 mm, parted slightly below middle; lobes elliptic to ovate-elliptic, black glandular punctate, apex rounded. Stamens included; filaments adnate to base of corolla lobes, free parts ca. 1 mm; anthers ovate, dorsifixed, ca. 0.5 mm. Ovary ovoid; style ca. 1 mm. Capsule globose, 2--2.5 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Aug. 2n = 24.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 30-70 cm high. It has creeping rhizomes or underground stems. The leaves almost occur opposite one another. They are sword shaped and 5-11 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. They taper at both ends. The flowers are small. They are white and in crowded groups 10-20 cm long at the ends of branches. The fruit is a round capsule.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.4 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 0.65
Root system creeping-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a warm temperate to subtropical plant. It grows in wet ditches and on the edges of rice paddies between sea level and 1,500 m above sea level in southern China.
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Wet margins of rivers and ponds in the lowland of C. and S. Japan. Wet areas, ditches, banks of rice paddies and roadsides from sea level to 1500 metres.
Light 4-8
Soil humidity 3-10
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

The leaves and shoots are eaten.
Uses fodder medicinal
Edible leaves shoots
Therapeutic use Spice (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Lysimachia fortunei world distribution map, present in China, Georgia, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:701131-1
WFO ID wfo-0001105502
COL ID 6R2Q7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lysimachia fortunei Lysimachia chikungensis Lysimachia fortunei var. pubescens