Twigs - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48996 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Pleurogyna rotata | Entry Book Number | 180.1893 | |
| Artefact Name | Twigs | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Twigs | Geography Description | Japan, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia | ||
| Uses | TwigsUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Veitch JH | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Japanese writing.To-yak (17) Pleurogyne rotata Griseb, (Gentianaceae); Swertia rotata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. P. 115. Syn Senburi, Toyaku; So mokou Zoussetz, vol. IV. f. 54. This small plant, having a slight resemblance to centaury, but with pink, ish-white flowers striped with purple, somewhat similar in size and shape to those of Chlora perfoliata; the leaves are linear- lanceolate, about one inch long and two or three lines broad in the middle. The taste is extremely bitter, like that of chire, tta, and the odour hardly any. To-yak flowers in October. This plant is interesting botanically on account of the stigma being prolonged downwards over the edges of the base valves of the ovary. The corolla has also at its base little glands terminating, in hairs. | ||||