To Tong flower

Pinyin name ] [ Dì Tá n Hu.
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: for the Rosaceae plant Spiraea plum flower.
Latin botanical name: Neillia thyrsiflora D.Don animal fossil
Harvest and storage:7-8 month flowers picked, dried.
[ ] the original morphology of Spiraea Mei, shrubs, up to 2m. Branchlets slender, angled color, red brown, slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous; winter buds ovoid, apex slightly obtuse, reddish brown,2-4gold exposed scales, in flowers on axillary often2-3bud appearing. Leaves alternate; petiole is long1-1.5cm, micro hairs or nearly glabrous; stipules ovate-lanceolate, close inflorescence blades are usually ovate-lanceolate, remotely serrate, ca.6mm, two nearly glabrous; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic, close inflorescence leaf usually assumes the egg shape wraps around needle form, long 6-8.5cm, wide 4-6cm, apex long acuminate, base rounded or cordate, base usually3 lobed, sparsely puberulent or nearly glabrous. Flowers bisexual; terminal panicles, straight under along the veins sparsely puberulent or nearly glabrous. Flowers bisexual; terminal panicles, diameter 6-15.5cm; pedicel ca.3mm, peduncle and pedicels are slightly pilose; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, inside and outside diameter of about 4mm hairy; flowers; calyx tube campanulate, long 2-3cm, sepals 5, triangular, ca. and calyx tube length, both small by pubescent; petals 5, obovate, ca.2mm, white; stamens 10-15, filaments short, born in the rim of calyx tube; ovary glabrous or hairy in seam micro. Follicles oblong, persistent calyx outside densely pubescent and sparsely long glandular hairs; seeds 8-10, ovate, light brown, ca.1.5mm. Florescence in July, month of fruit period 9-10.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in altitude 1000-3000m mountain jungle.
Resource distribution : produced in the northwest of Yunnan.
[ character ] character differentiation, inflorescence, diameter 6-15CM, peduncle and pedicels are puberulous. Bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, two sides all hair, flower diameter of about4mm; calyx tube campanulate, long 2-3mm, outside pubescent. Sepals triangular, apex caudate lake, and calyx tube length is sparsely pubescent, inside and outside surface. Petals obovate, white, long 2mm. Stamens 10-15, filaments short, a rim of calyx tube. Ovary glabrous or pilose with minority. Fragrant, mild.
[ indications ] anti-tuberculosis. Primary pulmonary tuberculosis
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,6-12g.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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