WorldFloraDB - Penthorum chinense

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, large, 40-65(-90) cm tall. Rhizome branched. Stems usually simple, rarely branched at base, proximally glabrous, distally sparsely brown glandular hairy. Leaves sessile or subsessile; leaf blade lanceolate to narrowly so, 4-10 cm × 4-12 mm, glabrous, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Cyme 1.5-4 cm; branches brown glandular hairy; bracts ovate to narrowly so, small; pedicels 1-2.2 mm, brown glandular hairy. Flowers yellowish, small. Sepals 5, triangular, ca. 1.5 × 1.1 mm, leathery, glabrous, 1-veined. Petals 5 or absent. Stamens 10, ca. 2.5 mm. Pistil ca. 3.1 mm; carpels 5(or 6), connate near base; ovary 5(or 6)-loculed; styles 5(or 6). Capsule red-purple, 4-5 mm in diam. Seeds ovoid-oblong, tuberculate. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 16.

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A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It has runners. It grows 15-80 cm high. The runners are like wire and are red. They are 6-10 cm long. The stems emerge from the end of these runners. They lie along the ground at the base. They are purple-red. The leaves are sword shaped and 4-11 cm long by 1 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are small and yellowish-green.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

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Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

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Spread

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Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.15 - 0.43

Root system

rhizome

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. In China it grows between 100-2,200 m above sea level. It grows in wet places. It grows in wetlands. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

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Usage

The young shoot are used as a potherb.

Uses	green manure potherb
Edible	shoots
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Cultivation

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:274678-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001300005
COL ID	77263
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Penthorum humile Penthorum chinense Penthorum intermedium Penthorum sedoides subsp. chinense Penthorum sedoides var. chinense

WorldFloraDB 2024

Penthorum chinense Pursh

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Penthoraceae > Penthorum