Stems 15-45cm. Leaves broadly ovate, 3.5-9x3-8cm, acute or shortly acuminate, base cordate; petioles 2-4cm; stipules oblong, 1.5-2.5cm, adnate to petiole in lower half. Flower spikes 1-2.5cm; basal bracts white, oblong to obovate, 1-1.5x0.7-1cm, obtuse..
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Houttuynia cordata C.P. Thunberg |
| synonym | Houttuynia cordata f. viridis J. Ohara |
| synonym | Houttuynia emeiensis Z.Y.Zhu & S.L.Zhang |
| synonym | Houttuynia foetida Hort. ex Loud. |
| synonym | Polypara cochinchinensis Lour. |
| synonym | Polypara cordata Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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| Tshangla/Sharchop |
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit
Herb
Family Description
Perennial stoloniferous aromatic herbs. Leaves alternate, palmately veined, entire, stipulate. Flowers in dense terminal and leaf opposed spikes, subtended by a whorl of 4 showy bracts; actinomorphic, bisexual. Perianth absent. Stamens usually 3-6, filaments adnate to base of ovary. Ovary superior, 1 locular, of 3 partially connate carpels; ovules several, parietal; styles 3, recurved. Fruit a capsule, somewhat fleshy, dehiscing at apex.
Genus Description
Perennial stoloniferous aromatic herbs. Leaves alternate, palmately veined, entire, stipulate. Flowers in dense terminal and leaf opposed spikes, subtended by a whorl of 4 showy bracts; actinomorphic, bisexual. Perianth absent. Stamens usually 3-6, filaments adnate to base of ovary. Ovary superior, 1 locular, of 3 partially connate carpels; ovules several, parietal; styles 3, recurved. Fruit a capsule, somewhat fleshy, dehiscing at apex.
Species description
Stems 15-45cm. Leaves broadly ovate, 3.5-9x3-8cm, acute or shortly acuminate, base cordate; petioles 2-4cm; stipules oblong, 1.5-2.5cm, adnate to petiole in lower half. Flower spikes 1-2.5cm; basal bracts white, oblong to obovate, 1-1.5x0.7-1cm, obtuse..
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Piperales |
| Family | Saururaceae |
| Genus | Houttuynia |
| Species | Houttuynia cordata Thunb. |
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