Codonopsis
| Codonopsis | |
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| Codonopsis pilosula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
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| Genus: | Codonopsis Wall. (1824) |
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Codonopsis is a genus of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. As currently recognized, Codonopsis includes two other groups sometimes separated as distinct genera, i.e. Campanumoea and Leptocodon.[1][2][3][4] The enlarged genus Codonopsis is widespread across eastern, southern, central, and southeastern Asia, including China, Japan, the Russian Far East, Kazakhstan, the Indian Subcontinent, Iran, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.
Uses[]
Medicinal uses[]
Codonopsis pilosula (Chinese: 党参; pinyin: dǎngshēn) is an important medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine.[5]
Food uses[]
Codonopsis lanceolata (Korean: deodeok) is used as a food in Korean cuisine.
Species[]
Species currently (July 2014) accepted by Kew's World Checklist.[1] Species with no range given are endemic to China
- – China, Himalayas, Myanmar (Chinese: 大叶党参)
- – (高山党参)
- – (银背叶党参)
- – China, Himalayas, Myanmar
- – Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet
- – Nepal
- – (管钟党参)
- – (灰毛党参)
- – (光叶党参)
- – Yunnan, Myanmar (滇湎党参)
- – (绿钟党参)
- – Central Asia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, western Himalayas (新疆党参)
- – Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar (鸡蛋参)
- – (心叶党参)
- – (三角叶党参)
- – Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam (珠峰党参)
- – Yunnan, Myanmar
- – Yunnan, Myanmar – (秃叶党参)
- – China, eastern Himalayas (臭党参)
- – China, Myanmar
- – (贡山党参)
- – Yunnan, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
- – (川鄂党参)
- Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
- – widespread across China, Japan, Himalayas, Indochina, Java, Sumatra
- – Taiwan (台湾党参)
- Codonopsis lanceolata – China, Korea, Japan, Russian Far East (羊乳)
- – (光萼党参)
- – Tibet
- – (珠鸡斑党参)
- – (小花党参)
- – Korea
- – Nepal
- Pakistan, Kashmir
- Codonopsis pilosula – China, Mongolia, Korea, Primorye (党参)
- – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) (紫花党参)
- – (莲座状党参)
- – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan)
- – (球花党参)
- Codonopsis subscaposa – (抽葶党参)
- – Tibet, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) (藏南党参)
- – Tibet, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) – (唐松草党参)
- – (秦岭党参)
- – (管花党参)
- – China, Japan, Korea, Primorye (雀斑党参)
- – (绿花党参)
- – Tibet, Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan)
References[]
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ K.E. Morris and T.G. Lammers (1997). "Circumscription of Codonopsis and the allied genera Campanumoea and Leptocodon (Campanulaceae: Campanuloideae). I. Palynological data". Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 36: 277–284.
- ^ Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. Continental Publishing, Deurne.
- ^ Flora of China v 19 p 505, 桔梗科 jie geng ke, Campanulaceae
- ^ Li, C. Y., et al. (2009). Quality assessment of Radix Codonopsis by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of Chromatography A 1216(11) 2124-29.
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