Flat nut

[ ] Bi n Gu Pinyin name I gave
[ alias ] wild litchi.
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the Anacardiaceae Chatham trefoil bark, fruit.
Latin animal mineral name: Terminthia peniculata ( Wall.exG.Don ) C.Y.Wu et T.L.Ming ( Rhus peniculata Wall.ex G.Don )
Harvest and storage: bark year may collect, stripping bark, dried in the sun; when ripe, dried in the sun.
[ ] the original morphology of Chatham trefoil shrubs or small trees, high 2-6m. Branchlets cylindric, glabrous, sparsely small lenticels. Having 3 leaflets. Petiole length 2.5-4cm, glabrous above, sulcate; leaflets usually sessile, oval or oblong or oblanceolate, usually the most wide in leaf in the upper part, side unripe flocculus length 3-7cm, width 1.5-3cm, terminal leaflet length 6-11cm, width 2-4cm, apex obtuse, a small pointed, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or slightly sinuolate; lateral veins raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins in the leaf projection. Inflorescences terminal or in upper leaf axils, large, yellow puberulent, long 12-20cm, much branched, total stem and branches slender, declinate; the flower is small, dioecious; bracts small, subulate; flowers pale yellow, pedicels short, ca. 1mm; calyx lobes ovate-orbicular, 4-5 fissure, about 0.5mm; petals elliptic, ca. 4-5, 1.5mm, about 0.8mm in width; filaments thin linear, ca. 0.5mm, anthers ovoid, ca. 0.3mm; disc 10 crack, glabrous; ovary globose, diameter 0.5-0.8mm, style 3, separation, subterminal, unequal, fine line, stigmas capitate. Drupe subglobose, slightly compressed, diameter of about 4mm, exocarp orange red, shiny, and the mesocarp, mesocarp dark red gum.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in an elevation of 400-1500m savanna grass or bushes.
Resource distribution: distribution in Yunnan and.
[ ] of taste: bitter, astringent skin; cool
[ function ] detoxification; convergence; hemostasis. The main throat; hematemesis; dysentery
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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