Herb - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 49031 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Pleurogyna rotata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Herb | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Japan | TDWG Region | Japan | ||
| Parts Held | Herb | Geography Description | Japan, Asia-Temperate, Eastern Asia | ||
| Uses | HerbUse: MEDICINES User: Not defined | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 14 A 8 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/11/1878 | Donor Notes | Christy Thos (Presented by)x0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: To-Yak Swertia rotata Thunb. Fl. Jap. p 115. Syn Senburi, Toyaku; So mokou Zeussetz. vol. iv. f 54, Herb Centrury. This is a small plant having a slight resemblance to centaury, but with pinkish white flowers striped with purple, somewh, at similar in size and shape to those of Chlora perfoliata; the leaves are linear lanceolate, about 1' long and 2 or 3 lines broad in the middle. The taste is extremely bitter, like that of chiretta, 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 valves of the ovary. The corolla has also at its a base little glands terminating in hairs. | ||||
| Determinations: | 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Pleurogyna rotata Griseb. 109.01 GENTIANACEAE Swertia rotata | ||||