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Anisodus luridus
3-665.71.03Anisodus tanguticus
Name: from Greek ánisos, = unequal and odoús, = tooth; signifying teeth, calyces of different lengths.
Anisodus tanguticus is more commonly known in Chinese: Shān làngdàng; Zang Qie; Tsang-ch'ieh.
Region: China, Tibet.
Content: nicotine, tropane alkaloids, hyoscyamine, scopolamine; anisodine; anisodamine.
Use: 1 of the 50 fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.Botany: perennial; flowers mostly solitary, in leaf axils, star shaped, radial, nodding, sometimes erect, pedicels of variable length, glabrous or pubescent, calyx infundibuliform, funnel-shaped,broadly dentate, one or two lobes to be broader and longer than the others, apices of lobes either acute or obtuse, lobes slightly unequal and glabrous, purple to wholly pale yellow to green;stamens inserted at the base of the corolla tube and are half the length of the corolla, anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary conical, stigma is discoidal, somewhat dehiscent; pollinators include flies, honeybees, ants.
Name: from Greek ánisos, = unequal and odoús, = tooth; signifying teeth, calyces of different lengths.
Anisodus tanguticus is more commonly known in Chinese: Shān làngdàng; Zang Qie; Tsang-ch'ieh.
Region: China, Tibet.
Content: nicotine, tropane alkaloids, hyoscyamine, scopolamine; anisodine; anisodamine.
Use: 1 of the 50 fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.Botany: perennial; flowers mostly solitary, in leaf axils, star shaped, radial, nodding, sometimes erect, pedicels of variable length, glabrous or pubescent, calyx infundibuliform, funnel-shaped,broadly dentate, one or two lobes to be broader and longer than the others, apices of lobes either acute or obtuse, lobes slightly unequal and glabrous, purple to wholly pale yellow to green;stamens inserted at the base of the corolla tube and are half the length of the corolla, anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary conical, stigma is discoidal, somewhat dehiscent; pollinators include flies, honeybees, ants.