Pentapetal parasitism

Pentapetal parasitism

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] Osmanthus fragrans parasitic, kapok parasitic, sleeve Tung parasitic, Chinese fir parasitic (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List).

[source] it is the branches and leaves of five petal parasitic plants of the family parasitaceae.

Five petal parasitism

Evergreen shrubs with stout, glabrous branches. Leaves opposite or alternate, leathery, ovate or elliptic, 5-12 cm long, apex acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, brown black when dry; petiole 8-14 mm long. Racemes axillary, solitary or paired, 5-13 cm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long; flowers about 9 mm long, 5-numbered, base expanded into pentagonal, bracts ovate; calyx tube gyro shaped or cylindrical, calyx eaves top truncated; corolla 5-7 mm long, covered with brown black powder, lobes turned outward, top rod-shaped, stamens protruding; styles with nodes in the middle, lower 2 / 5 have 5-angled. Berries cylindrical, ca. 7 mm long, seeds oblong, ca. 4 mm long. It blooms in early spring. The fruit period is from May to July.

Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[functions and indications] list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants: "dispel phlegm, stop dysentery, dispel wind, detumescence, replenish qi and blood. It can cure dysentery, pulmonary tuberculosis and ophthalmitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.