Stephania rotunda Lour.

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Menispermaceae > Stephania

Characteristics

A vine.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) -
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 3-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible roots tubers
Therapeutic use Asthma (root), Dysentery (root), Fever (root), Tuberculosis, pulmonary (root), Asthma (tuber), Hyperglycemia (tuber), Ache(Body) (unspecified), Headache (unspecified), Antibiotic (unspecified), Asthma (unspecified), Convulsion (unspecified), Hyperglycemia (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Eye (unspecified), Intestine (unspecified), Massage (unspecified), Tuberculosis (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Mastalgia (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Adrenergic antagonists (unspecified), Anti-inflammatory agents (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Distribution

Stephania rotunda world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:581482-1
WFO ID wfo-0000505063
COL ID 52BRN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Stephania rotunda Cissampelos glabra Clypea glabra Clypea rotunda Menispermum roxburghii Cocculus finlaysonianus Stephania glabra Stephania hexandra