Parasitic rattan

Parasitic rattan

(list of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

[synonym] TengXiang, rudijisheng, xiongdanteng, zuozhouxiang (Guangxi Medicinal plant directory), Liezi, tengsuanggong, qingtenggong (common Chinese herbal medicine color atlas).

[source] it is the whole plant of the parasitic rattan.

Parasitic rattan

Parasitic shrub, erect or lianiform, 2-8 m long, with longitudinal stripes and dark brown lenticels. The leaves are alternate, nearly fleshy, obovate or elliptic, 3-7 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide. The base is gradually narrowed and extended downward, two leaves are glabrous, and the base has three veins. Flowers small, unisexual, dioecious: male flowers globose, less than 2 mm in diameter, several integrated into axillary bovine umbels; calyx 5, lobes triangular: stamen 5, at the base of lobes; female flowers solitary in leaf axils, ovate, ovary inferior, one locular. Drupe ovate, yellowish brown, ca. 1 cm long, flowering in winter.

Living in shrubs and parasitic on underground stems or roots of other plants. It is distributed in the southern provinces of China.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round and used fresh.

[function indications] list of Guangxi Medicinal Plants: "dispersing blood, detumescence and relieving pain. To cure a knife wound or a fall. "

[usage and dosage] external use: tamping.