轮钟花 Cyclocodon lancifolius

  • Scientific Name: Cyclocodon lancifolius (Roxb.) Kurz
  • Ref: Flora 55:303. 1872
  • Synonyms:
    • Campanula celebica D.Dietr.
    • Campanula lancifolia Roxb.
    • Campanula truncata D.Dietr.
    • Campanumoea celebica Blume
    • Campanumoea lancifolia (Roxb.) Merr.
    • Campanumoea leucocarpa (Miq.) C.B.Clarke
    • Campanumoea truncata (Wall. ex G.Don) Endl.
    • Canarina moluccana Roxb.
    • Codonopsis albiflora Griff.
    • Codonopsis celebica (Blume) Miq.
    • Codonopsis lancifolia (Roxb.) Moeliono
    • Codonopsis leucocarpa Miq.
    • Codonopsis truncata Wall. ex G.Don
    • Cyclocodon celebicus (Blume) D.Y.Hong
    • Cyclocodon lancifolius subsp. celebicus (Blume) K.E.Morris & Lammers
    • Cyclocodon leucocarpus Miq.
    • Cyclocodon truncatus (Wall. ex G.Don) Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Chinese Common Name: 轮钟花 lúnzhōng∙huā, 长叶轮钟草 chángyè lúnzhōng∙cǎo
  • Family: Campanulaceae
  • Genus: Cyclocodon
  • Distribution: Forests, thickets, grasslands; below 1500 m. Chongqing, S Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, SW Hubei, S and W Hunan, S Jiangxi (Quannan), Sichuan, Taiwan, SE Yunnan [Bangladesh, Cambodia, NE India, Indonesia, Japan (including Ryukyu Islands), Laos, Philippines, Vietnam].
  • Photo: Wenzhou, Zhejiang
Herbs, (perennial or annual), erect or ascending, sometimes lignified at base, usually glabrous throughout. Stems up to 3 m tall, hollow; branches multiple, horizontal or pendulous. Leaves opposite, rarely in whorls of 3, shortly petiolate; blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6-15 × 1-5 cm, margin serrate, dentate, or crenate, apex acuminate. Flowers usually solitary, terminal, or both terminal and axillary, sometimes in a cyme of 3; pedicels or peduncles 1-10 cm, with a pair of filiform bracteoles at middle to top. Calyx adnate to ovary up to lower part of ovary; lobes (4 or)5(-7), filiform or linear, margins with ramiform teeth. Corolla white or pale red, tubular-campanulate, 7-12 mm, 5- or 6-cleft to middle; lobes ovate to ovate-triangular. Stamens 5 or 6; filaments equal to anthers in length, base dilated into lamellar part, margins villous-ciliate. Style glabrous or hairy; stigma (4 or)5- or 6-fid; ovary (4 or)5- or 6-locular. Berry purple-black when mature, globose, (4 or)5- or 6-locular, 5-10 mm in diam. Seeds extremely numerous, subglabrous. Fl. and fr. Jul-Nov. (Flora of China)

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