White Ke

[ ] B I P Pinyin name 's K Golf
[ alias ] wild areca
[ source ]
Medicine source: as Fagaceae in Shi Li.
Latin animal mineral name: Lithocarpus dealbatus ( Hook.f.et Thoms. ) Rehd. ( Quercus dealhetus Hook.f.et Thoms. )
Harvest and storage: 4-5 harvest inflorescence, dry.
[ ] the original morphology of evergreen trees, high up to 5-10 ( - 25 ) M. Bark grayish brown to dark brown, indehiscent, endothelial reddish brown. Branchlets densely gray-yellow fuzz. Leaves alternate; petiole length 8-20mm; leaf blade subleathery, egg shape is oblong or lanceolate, long 7-14cm, width 2.5 5cm, apex acuminate or short tail tip, base cuneate, margin entire, old leaves along midrib sparsely was above short hairs or glabrous, lobes of the densely pale gray or grayish white wax scale blighted 9-12, lateral veins on. Male inflorescences row into a conical shape, long 5-10cm; female inflorescences often born male inflorescence lower, long 10-15cm, sometimes basally a few clusters of staminate flowers. Infructescence long 10-20cm, fruit cupules dense, oblate, enclosing nut 2 / 3-3 / 4, diameter 1-1.5cm, high 0.5-lcm, bracts triangular, and adnate to the cupule, apex and cupule separation; nuts is flat globose or subglobose, diameter 1-1.6cm, high 0.9-1.5cm, apex uplift, with grayish yellow fuzz, hilum apophysis, greater than the fruit base, about 1 / 4 because of high. Flowering 8-10 month, fruit next year 8-10 month.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in 1300-3500m elevation slopes temperature, wet forest, often with Castanopsis, Quercus and Shi Li belong to other species of mixed forest.
Resource distribution: distribution in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] of taste slightly bitter and astringent; temperature;
[ ] and insecticidal functions. The staple product of abdominal distension abdominal pain; insect plot
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 9-15g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/