Pinellia

Threefold Pinellie ( Pinellia ternata )

The Pinellia ( Pinellia ), also known as the Asian mouse plants, are a genus within the family of Araceae ( Araceae ). The approximately nine species are native to China, Korea and Japan.

Description

Pinellia species grow as perennial herbaceous plants. It will be designed as outlasting tubers; Brood nodules are also formed in the leaf axils. Two to five true leaves are borne in a basal rosette. The leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The leaf blade is easy to put together.

Pinellia species are monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). As with most Aroideae the inflorescence from a inflorescence stem, only a bract ( spathe ) and the piston ( spadix ). The inflorescence stem is longer than the petioles. The piston ( spadix ) male and top female flowers are available below, separated by a membrane. The reduced flowers do not bloom. The male flowers contain so only two stamens with short stamens. The female flowers have only one ovary. The berries remain green when ripe, and contain only one seed.

Dissemination

The genus Pinellia is native in East Asia. Pinellia species occur in China, Korea and Japan.

System

The genus Pinellia 1839 by Michele Tenore in Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze: Sezione della Societa Reale placed Borbonica, 4, p 69. The genus name honors the Pinellia Italian Giovanni Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601), the founder of the Botanical Garden of Naples.

There are about nine Pinellia species, including eight in China:

  • Pinellia cordata NEBr. It occurs only in China.
  • Pinellia fujianensis H.Li
  • Pinellia integrifolia N.E.Br.
  • Pinellia pedatisecta Schott (syn.: Pinellia wawrae Engl ): It occurs only in northern and western China.
  • Pinellia peltata Pei
  • Pinellia polyphylla S.L.Hu
  • Threefold Pinellie ( Pinellia ternata ( Thunb. ) Makino, Syn: Pinellia cochinchinense ( flower) W.Wight, Pinellia tuberifera Ten. ): It occurs in China, Korea and Japan.
  • Pinellia tripartita (Blume ) Schott: It occurs only in Japan.
  • Pinellia yaoluopingensis X.H.Guo & X.L.Liu

Use

The underground parts of plants found in Chinese medicine use; the name of the drug is Rhizoma Pinelliae. For use they come in diseases such as cough with copious phlegm, nausea, vomiting, gastro- intestinal disorders and dizziness.

Swell

  • Heng Li & Josef Bogner: Pinellia, pp. 39 - text Registered as printed work, In: Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 23: Acoraceae through Cyperaceae, Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2010, ISBN 978-1-930723-99-3. (Sections Description, distribution and systematics)
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