Shizhen Epimedium
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Li Shizhen is a very famous doctor in China. Born into a medical family, he compiled the book "Compendium of Materia Medica", which made a very important contribution to Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is very profound. Within the scope of Chinese medicine, almost all animals and plants can be used as medicine to treat diseases. Shizhen Epimedium is a herb. Below I will give you a detailed introduction to Shizhen Epimedium. 1. Shizhen Epimedium Shizhen Epimedium (scientific name: Epimedium lishihchenii Stearn) is a perennial herb of the genus Epimedium, with a plant height of 30-40 cm. The creeping rhizomes are slender, about 2-3 mm in diameter. Leaves once-tripleted, basal and cauline, with 3 leaflets; leaflets leathery, narrowly ovate. 2. Morphological characteristics: Perennial herb, plant height 30-40 cm. The creeping rhizomes are slender, about 2-3 mm in diameter. The leaves are basal and cauline, with 3 leaflets; the leaflets are leathery, narrowly ovate, 5-11 cm long, 3.5-5 cm wide, acuminate or acute at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, the basal lobes of the terminal leaflets are nearly equal in size and obtuse, while the basal lobes of the lateral leaflets are significantly unequal in size, the inner lobes are smaller, rounded or obtuse, the outer lobes are larger, acute or shortly acuminate, dark green above, pale on the back, covered with multicellular long hairs or nearly glabrous, and the leaf margins have dense spiny teeth; the flower stem has 2 opposite leaves. The raceme is 7-12 cm long, with 5-11 flowers; the pedicel is 1-2 cm long and covered with glandular hairs; the flowers are yellow and large; there are 2 whorls of sepals, the outer sepals are caducous, 4-5 mm long, with white edges, and the inner sepals are close to the petals, ovate or narrowly oblong, light yellow, 10-11 mm long, 6-7 mm wide, and acute at the apex; the petals are much longer than the inner sepals, light yellow, with a subulate spur, 20-25 mm long, highly curved, and without petals at the base; the stamens are exposed, about 5 mm long, light yellow, the filaments are about 1 mm long, the anthers are about 4 mm long, and the petals are dehiscent; the pistil is about 7 mm long. Flowering period is April-May. 3. Growth habits: It grows under forests on hillsides. 4. Differences between similar species This species differs from Epimedium membranaceum K. Meyer mainly in that its inflorescence is shorter and has fewer flowers; it differs from E. franchetii Stearn in that its leaflets are smaller and covered with multicellular hairs on the back; the inner sepals are oblong and acute at the apex |
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